On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 03:14, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi. > > After 2.5 months of not updating a sarge-box, I took the plunge > and made it an up-to-date sarge+sid box. > > Most things seem to work, except there's no window manager. > Gnome fires up, and I can run programs, but only in single-task > mode. > > How can I tell Gnome to use Metacity? > > I see instructions on the web to use a .xinitrc file, but I never > needed that in the Gnome1.4/Sawfish days. > > I tried dpkg-reconfigure, but no luck: > # dpkg-reconfigure x-session-manager > Package `x-session-manager' is not installed and no info is available. > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: x-session-manager is not installed
This goes to show you why it's not always to work on the computer very late at night after a very long day... http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2002-August/msg00018.html -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
