Thanks for all the suggestions. Removing all Gnome-related directories from my home solved the problem, although gnome-panel still misbehaves if run from Fvwm. Time to dive into the Gnome documentation.
Greg On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Mathias Megyei wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I'm using GNOME session on Ubuntu Breezy system but I have > replaced metacity by fvwm 2.5.14. I have the full functionality of > fvwm and I can use the few useful features of Gnome (gnome-panel > with some applets and the predefined menus). I didn't see any > problems up to now. > > In the past I had many problems when I tried to use gnome-panel > inside a "fvwm session". Sometimes deleting old lock-files in > several .gnome*, .gconf* directories solved the problem. In some > cases I had to remove the whole GNOME related setyp (~/gconf*, > ~/.gnome*). > > Mathias > > Greg BOGNAR writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have an FVWM-related problem which is probably not FVWM's > > problem; but perhaps someone's had a similar experience. > > > > 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 > > 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 > > work is if you log into a "failsafe xterm" session, and start > > gnome-session from an xterm. > > > > This has now happened to me three times, on two different computers, > > both with Ubuntu Breezy and Dapper, and just after installation too. > > I have no idea what the problem might be and where to look for a > > solution. The version of FVWM is 2.5.14 from the Ubuntu repositories. > > > > Best, > > Greg > > > > >
