Right. So what I'm saying is that the problem is local to _your_ system. Try rebuilding metacity, maybe.
Or see if reverting to the built-in X11 works. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Richard Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >>>>> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >>>>> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Fink-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alexander K. Hansen >>>> akh AT finkproject DOT org >>>> Fink User Liaison and Documenter >>> >>> Richard E. Miles >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >>> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >>> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alexander K. Hansen >> akh AT finkproject DOT org >> Fink User Liaison and Documenter > > Richard E. Miles > [email protected] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
