Startup gnome, start sawfish (or metacity or ...), logout but make sure you're current session is saved. I experienced the window manager is treated as just another app: it's started automaticly only if it was saved as part of your session. Selecting wheter gnome shows an option to save the session can be selected in gconf-editor /apps/gnome-session/options. IMHO this is a bug. The window manager is not a regular app, it's part of GNOME itself. So the session manager should ignore the current window manager process when trying to save a session and start the manager selected in gconf:/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager Currently i think the session-wise selected WM is started before the gconf-wise selected WM. When the gconf-WM starts, it immediately exists, because a WM is already running. Just a hunch.. Maybe anybody with more knowledge of gnome-internals could give some info?? J. On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 04:16, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > Hi, Help. > > I cant get a window manager to start when I log in to gnome 2. > > I used to have sawfish runnig. tried metacity , decided to go back to > sawfish but it wont start by default. > > I have tried runnig it, logging out and selecting save session, but it > does not restart. > > Looking in the gconf configeditor app I see sawfish is set as my window > manager, yet nothing happens.... > > currently I am logging in, selecting a new terminal from a pannel icon > and starting sawfish fromthere > > -- > > * > * Rob Brown-Bayliss > * > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
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