--- Greg BOGNAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an FVWM-related problem which is probably not FVWM's
> problem; but perhaps someone's had a similar experience.
You're right. This has nothing to do with FVWM, and your question is much
better off posted to the Ubuntu forums, or whever it is you feel is
appropriate.
> If you install FVWM on a Ubuntu system and you log in and out of an
> FVWM session from GDM, the next time you log into GNOME gnome-panel
> won't start; a window comes up which says that gnome-panel is
I assume GNOME logs to ~/.xsession-errors like most things? If it does look
there. Note that I assume when you say "GNOME" you mean GNOME and that
hideous mess of a window manager metacity, as opposed to FVWM running within
GNOME?
> alrady running and it will now exit. The panels don't work and all
> the applets die, so you basically cannot do anything. It does not
> help if you kill gnome-panel from the console (or other
> Gnome-related applications), and it does not help if you reboot the
> system and try logging into Gnome again. It seems that Gnome and
> FVWM cannot co-exist on a Ubuntu system. The only way Gnome will
Of course they can coexist, and I would surmise the presence of FVWM with
respect to GNOME's failure is simply a red herring in this instance. I would
almost certainly move any ~/.gnome/ directories (or whatever it is GNOME
uses) out of the way, and then see if that helps when you next try to load
GNOME.
> work is if you log into a "failsafe xterm" session, and start
> gnome-session from an xterm.
Then it's most likely an issue with what GDM is loading via its 'session'
(probably defined within one if its .desktop files). Note that I know next
to nothing about GNOME, and am proud of that fact.
-- Thomas Adam
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