On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Dale Huckeby <[email protected]> wrote: > (So > what keeps metacity from trying to start up, since it normally does so even > without an entry? Do I need to check the "Automatically remember running > applications when logging out" box, or is having a sawfish entry enough to > supercede the default?) >
I'm not an expert as to all the ways a window manager can be chosen. GDM/XDM/startx have some, Gnome has some, X11 has some and they likely differ in detail from distribution to distribution. Chris pointed out some other things to check. There is also a .gnomerc file that is honored on the systems I use. Also, know that only one window manager can run so whichever one starts first will "win". Personally, I simply remove all metacity and other WM packages from my systems (various versions of Debian and Ubuntu) that run X11 and then get sawfish to start by whatever mechanism I find first that works. What I described before was what I found on Ubuntu 9.10. -Brett.
