On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:00:25PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > I've installed and uninstalled gnome-control-center/experimental (I > wish there was a virtual package named gnome-control-centre that > called it in - not being American, it is far more natural to type > that,) and each time, my Control Center/Desktop Preferences/Server > Settings/System Settings is constrained to: Screensaver. Nothing else. > No Window Manager, Background, Mouse Properties - whatever. Add in > that the Screensaver configuration doesn't run, and things are a bit > limiting.
I have run into this problem as well, it has something to do with gnome-vfs (that helps a lot I'm sure ;-) ) I have found, that pointing nautilus to "preferences:///" will give you the list of capplets. One thing you can do is check the contents of /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders to see if there are any files that are not supposed to be there (i.e. not part of any package, do dpkg -S filename on each file). > I'm also wondering where to look for a settings applet to change > window managers - there doesn't appear to be one with > gnome-control-center/experimental, and my apt-cache and apt-file > searches aren't getting me any closer. Have I missed a page of > directions in this transition? gnome2 does not have a readily available way to change wm's (for some reason, that option was deemed "crack"). the way I did it earlier today was to "killall metacity && sawfish" from a terminal, then run gnome-session-properties to remove metacity, and set sawfish as a respawning process, then run gnome-session-save. Come on now, isn't that more intuitive? ;-) -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
