On My system, when I do that metacity shows in aprenthesis and a zombie process.
It does not work.

On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> You don't need to:  it would have worked with /sw as well.  I just
> happen to have put my 32-bit Fink in /sw32 and my 64-bit Fink in /sw64
> on 10.6.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Richard Miles <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I do not have /sw32 folder. What do I need to do to have it?
>> 
>> On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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>> 
>> Richard E. Miles
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> 
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