Re: Gnome-fvwm problem

[Chazz Mevoli <cmevoli afsa com>]

I have the same problem with Gnome and Afterstep.  Certain Afterstep applets will load twice and when gnome-session is starting, it will hang and eventually timeout when trying to start the window manager.  There's two things you can do to try and resolve the problem...

1)  In the Gnome control center, goto 'Window Managers' capplet.  Select sawfish and press OK.  When sawfish loads successfully, select your fvwm2 entry and press OK.  Before restarting your gnome session, complete the next step.

2)  In the control center, goto 'Startup Programs'.  Then select 'Browse currently running programs'.  Then you should see entries for the processes that are duplicating.  Select 'Trash' for these item styles.  This will not delete them from your system... just the session.

After all this, the key is to save your session when logging out of gnome.  (the checkbox in the logout dialog).  When you start gnome again... things should work for you.  You dont have to save your session settings anymore.  If you do, it could start doubling the programs again.  The problem is that fvwm (just like afterstep) is not fully gnome compliant.

Hope this helps you.

"John E. Garrott Sr" wrote:

When I logon as root, gnome (latest sources) and
fvwm-2.3.21 both operate smoothly and normally.

Gnome is brought by running gnome-session and
fvwm2 is named as the default window manager.

With an identical setup, logging in as a user, while
succeeding, is not smooth.  The pager, clock and
xload are all duplicated, one each in the buttonbox
and one outside.

It appears as if gnome is trying to start fvwm2 twice,
with only moderate success.  The only error message
i get says "another window manager is running".

I haven't been able to find mention of this problem
in any of the documentation, or on dejanews, or in the
mail archives.  If anyone has an idea about what is going
on, please let me know.

Thanks in advance,

John

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