I sent this yesterday morning, but never saw it come through the list. I
apologize if anyone receives this twice.
Since I sent the first message, my inital problem is back: WindowMaker is
again trying to load multiple panels and loads mulitple gmc windows at
startup, even after I close those windows and save the session. Am I doing
something wrong? Where are these things coming from? It worked fine
through several restarts of X yesterday, but first thing this morning, the
problem is back.
Thanks-
-Aan
----original message----
Hi-
I've started to play with Gnome/WindowMaker in the last few days
(Enlightenment was cool, but wow, resource-intensive). In the process of
configuring my desktop, I inadvertently loaded multiple instances of gmc
and panel. Subsequently, whenever I started WindowMaker, gmc and panel
would try to load extra copies -- making for an unaesthetic experience
because I had to cancel the extras each time and cancel the error messages
alerting me to the presence of a second panel. No matter what I did, I
could not get those extra instances to not load up when starting X. So my
first question is, what did I do wrong and how might I have fixed it? What
I ended up doing is replacing ~/GNUstep/Defaults/* with unmodified files
from another account, and correcting a few path arguments in
'WindowMaker'. That seems to have partly worked, at least in the sense
that extra instances of panel and gmc are not loading at startup now.
However, I know that probably isn't the preferred solution; is there a way
to tell WindowMaker to absolutely return to default settings?
Second, since making that file switch, running certain commands in the
"Run program" dialog seems to freeze up WM. Programs that I would expect
to run in a terminal window, like telnet or ftp, when I try to enter them
in the "run" box, hang up the whole system. CTRL-ALT-DEL usually recovers
and drops me back to shell, but it doesn't always do the trick; I had to
manually power down once. Did I break something by switching in the other
files? Can I fix this one somehow?
Thanks for any help anybody can offer-
- alan
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