On 5/12/06, Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been irritated by something for a while now but only as a
consequence of a complete rebuild of my system (the upside of a
hardware failure, I guess. Or is that that the downside, nevermind :-)
have I determined that it's somehow related to fvwm.
After installing Ubuntu (6.06 this time), the first thing I do is
delete the bottom panel and move the top panel down to the bottom. I
also increase the number of desktops in the workspace applet from four
to six.
In the course of getting things setup, I had reason to reboot a couple
of times and noticed that these changes "stuck". They never had
before; each time I logged in, the "bottom" panel would be on the top
and the workspace applet would show four desktops.
As soon as I was done rebooting I installed the one true window
manager, fvwm. All was swell after the normal cursing to get Gnome to
save that setting across logins.
I don't use gnome, but perhaps when you did set it up to use fvwm you
removed "something" that allowed it to use the saved settings. It
seems that it uses the default settings no matter what you have saved.
Of course if you change them _while everything is runing_ things go
where they belong, but if you close the gnome apps they somehow can't
retrieve the stored info.
But now I see that I'm back where I started wrt the panel.
When I login, the panel is on the top. If I check it's properties it
says it's orientation is "Bottom", but it's not. So I set it to top,
then set it to bottom again, and it moves to the right place. And the
workspace applet shows four desktops instead of six, so I use it's
properties to change that too.
It's not a bit deal, but it's annoying. I have no idea where the
problem is, but fvwm is definitely part of it.
I really don't think fvwm is the cause per se. Probably setting gnome
to use it broke the config mechanism. Since it happened across
versions, and since other people managed to get things working without
a problem, it must be the method you used to replace gnome's WM.
Please describe what you did here so that other gnome users can help.
I'm afraid I don't fall into that category though.. I used kde before
switching to pure fvwm.
I suppose if I had any sense I'd just delete the bottom panel too and
use fvwm features for the stuff that's down there. Maybe I will, but I
felt obligated to at least report the bug :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
Cheers,
Renato
