Re: How to use Metacity with Gnome2

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 21:57, Pollywog wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:46:58 -0700 (PDT)
> "Dinesh Nadarajah" <n_dinesh yahoo com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I recently installed Gnome2 and I have the following in my .xinitrc
> > file:
> > 
> > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
> > 
> > But when I run startx, Gnome2 starts with twm. I would like it to
> > start with Metacity. How can I do that? What config. files must eb
> > modufied to do this?
> 
> in your .xinitrc, try:
> 
> /path/to/metacity &
> exec /usr/bin/gnome-session

personally I would just put 
export WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity in my .bashrc

works for me

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