Re: gnome-wm not running

[Rick Hansen <in_rapture yahoo com>]

I finally found out what the problem was. When I was
compiling sawfish I didnt link /usr/include/X11 to
/usr/X11R6/include/X11. So the config script wasnt
finding X11/SM/SMlib.h, and thus wasnt building the
session managment stuff. Even though the config script
found the /usr/X11R6/include directory as a place that
held needed headers. Odd. At the very least a warning
would have been nice. Any who a quick symlink, and
recompile and everything is working like a champ now.

Rick Hansen


--- Rick Hansen <in_rapture yahoo com> wrote:
> Ok a little more info on this subject. It appears
> that
> sawfish is not able to register itself with the
> session manager. I noticed that when sawfish does
> run,
> gnome-session hangs waiting for it to finish
> registering for about 30 seconds. So I changed my
> gnome-session in the .xinitrc file to:  
> 
> gnome-session --purge-delay=0
> 
> And sure enough the gnome-session will hang forever
> waiting for sawfish to register itself. Any clues
> why
> sawfish could be having trouble registering? And
> after
> looking at .gnome/session right after I start gnome
> for the first time I did notice that the gnome-wm
> was
> never given a proper id. it still contained the
> default id.( default2) Hrm ... this is frustrating. 
> By the by I am using sawfish .38. All gnome apps and
> libs were compiled from source. I did find a
> temporary
> work around. I made my .xinitrc look like this:
> 
> sawfish &
> gnome-session
> 
> That seems to get a windows manager up and running
> and
> doesnt apear to cause any problems. I can even
> configure it from the gnome control center. Does
> anyone know if this will cause any problems,
> crashes,
> political strife both at home and abroad? I would
> really like to have gnome-session take care of
> starting the windows manager for me so I ask once
> again if anyone knows anything I would love to hear
> suggestions.
> 
> Thanks again
> Rick Hansen
> 
> 
> 
> --- Rick Hansen <in_rapture yahoo com> wrote:
> > I am having a bit of a problem with the gnome-wm
> > portion of my .gnome/session file disapearing. Let
> > me
> > run you through what happens. I remove all .gnome
> > files and fire up X. Gnome comes up perfectly.
> > Sawfish
> > fires up and everything works as it should. I
> > shutdown
> > gnome, and fire X up once again. This time
> > everything
> > comes up OK with the one exception that the order
> in
> > which all them gnome icons that show up in the
> > splash
> > screen are in a different order. But that doesnt
> > effect anything. I check .gnome/session and
> > everything
> > seems to be OK. I shut gnome down again. Then fire
> > up
> > X for the 3rd time. This time sawfish doesnt come
> > up.
> > Gnome complains that there isnt a gnome compliant
> > windows manager, and sure enough sawfish isnt
> > running.
> > I check .gnome/session and low and behold the
> > gnome-wm
> > lines arent there. During the gnome shutdown
> process
> > it deletes those lines from the .gnome/session
> file.
> > I
> > have absolutely no idea whats going on. If anyone
> > has
> > any ideas why gnome has decided that I dont need
> to
> > have a windows manager fire up I would love to
> hear
> > about it. This happens for root, as well as
> non-root
> > users. And happens exactly as I explained it every
> > time. I dont have to do anything but start gnome
> and
> > stop it. I've deleted my .gnome and .sawfish
> > directories in the hopes that maybe there were
> some
> > probs but with no luck. If anyone knows how I can
> > even
> > trouble shoot this problem I would love to hear
> > about
> > it. This is a fresh compile/install of 1.4.0.1.
> > Everything else seems fine.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rick Hansen
> 
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