On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of > > programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to > > the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16. > > > > I used a unstable version of gnome-2.18 once and downgraded because of this > > problem. Nobody able to solve this problem. > > > > Matthias, can you post your 'very hackish way' please > > well, it's nothing special: > > " > #!/bin/bash > ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity &> /dev/null && metacity& > " > > put this in a file somewhere in your home directory, make it executable > and add it to "Startup Programs" in "Sessions"... >
or, if you want it more verbose: " #!/bin/bash LOGFILE="${HOME}/meta.log" COMPLAIN="metacity was not started by gnome" ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity &> /dev/null if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then echo "$(date): $COMPLAIN" >> $LOGFILE metacity& fi " matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list