Re: gnome2 WM bug?

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 08:20, mdew wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 22:56, mdew wrote:
> 
> thanks for the responses guys, I think I may've tracked it down. In
> orginal 1.0.x Nautilus, I told it _NOT_ to draw the desktop. However
> Nautilus 2 doesnt like being told this (through a gnome-session) ...this
> is speculation based upon my experience so far,  So I loaded Naut2
> manually, changed the drawing desktop options, and everything loaded
> fine. (other than the WM)
> 
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity
> metacity&
> exec gnome-session
> 
> gnome-session is not loading the window manager, wether its sawfish or
> metacity..doesnt matter.

you can't start the WM before gnome-session, otherwise it can't find out
how to talk to the session manager.

you should be able to use the gnome 1 window manager capplet to change
WMs.

 - jacob