I have rebuilt metacity with no change. When you say reverting to the built-in X11, How do I do that?
On Jul 18, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > 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 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
