OK, I figured it out. Gnome2 will use the wm that is configured on your system. To get around this, You have to define WINDOW_MANAGER somewhere. I defined it in .xinitrc by adding a line:

env WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity.

Then move .gnome* and .gcon* to a safe place. (I don't know which of these is necessary, as I moved the lot, but not moving them definitely does not work.)
More info about this can be obtained by typing "info gnome" in a terminal.

I didn't like gnome2 at first, but it's not too bad once you configure it.

OT: Mac OS X 10.2.4 is out.

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:17 PM, Northam, Brent wrote:

This doesn't seem to work for me, the metacity manager seems to be running while GNOME loads (I know because I get an error message about not having xscreensaver in a properly formed window), but the splash screen then indicates that sawfish is being started and I have the window problem again.� It's starting sawfish for some reason, do you know how I change that?

Best,
Brent



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:03 PM
To: Kurt De Vos
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Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Gnome2



What I did is just call metacity in my .xinitrc before gnome-session:

...
metacity &
gnome-session
...
GNOME detects that metacity is running, and is happy.�


By the way, was your sawfish problem that the controls for the windows
vanished?


On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:53, Kurt De Vos wrote:
> Dear,
>
> I updated to gnome2.
> Gnome2 starts fine, but the sawfish windowmanager doesn't seem to work.
> Where can i change the window manager (there doesn't seem to be an
> control center item for it)
>
> kurt
>
>
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