An aptitude purge of the three libgtkxxx packages followed by an "aptitude install gnome" took care of the problem. I had only been removing the packages instead of purging them.
* Victor Torrico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Gnome SID installation with metacity or sawfish WM: > > "aptitude install gnome" worked great with no errors. Using startx to "exec > gnome-session". When splashscreen comes up it hangs for a while showing > "Window Manager" where it should indicating "metacity" and then continues and > disappears and brings up what is a really weird control panel. The panel is > a super long bar extending very far beyond the right hand edge of the screen. > It has the Gnome footprint at the far left but does not have the Applications > or Actions headings. If I select the footprint the long bar simply drops down > and becomes about 4 or 5 times deeper in depth and may or may not have icons > on > the left side. Sawfish behaves the same way. Super weird. > > Have set update-alternatives for x-window-manager to metacity and modified the > window manager to metacity using gconf-editor but with no luck. Any ideas? > > If I startx with "gnome-panel &" and "exec icewm" everything is normal and the > control panel works fine. > > Victor > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
