On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:06:44 -0700
drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> > After I launched my mail client (Sylpheed) I quickly discovered that it
> > popped up on top of the panel, which nothing used to be able to do.
> > Worse, I can't drag it around with the mouse. And there are no little -
> > and x buttons in the window.
> >
> > This is the window manager, right? Whatever it is, it's not working.
> >
> > Off to google on Gnome window manager to see if I can figure out what
> > it's called.

> Well that explains why when you login you're not getting the panel because
> the Window Manager isn't running when you login. The panel applet isn't
> dependent on the entire WM running so that's why gnome-do will let you
> launch it.
> 
> See my response in the other thread about deleting the dot dir's for gnome
> to see if there is something in there that is causing the issue.

Turns out it's Metacity. Problem is solved if I just type "metacity" in
a terminal window.

So I went into System > Control Center > Startup Applications and added
Metacity and Gnome Panel. Then I restarted the computer. When I logged
in everything was back to normal.

I think it's fixed. However, I wonder why the dist-upgrade to Jaunty
decided that I didn't need a Gnome panel or a window manager. Very
strange, that.
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