Following up:  metacity seems to work OK here (it shows up as a
running process at least) on 10.6/i386, using the following startup
script:

#!/bin/sh
. /sw32/bin/init.sh
metacity &
exec gnome-session

and _not_ using Xquartz.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Richard Miles <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alexander, I made all the changes you suggested and still no metacity. When I 
> put “metacity &” in the script, it shows as a parenthesis background program 
> and a zombie. The point is an hour glass. No window decorations.
> I have two window managers that will run: quartz-wm and icewm —gnome. 
> quartz-wm propagates the background to all my spaces. icewm —gnome does not.
> I have no Ideas on how to get metacity to run.
>
> Richard E. Miles
> [email protected]
>
>
>
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