On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:53:55AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I just installed Debian on a friend's machine yesterday. I used Knoppix to > detect the hardware (and write down what it produced) then I used an old Woody > CD to get a base system in place. I changed the sources.list to point at > unstable and then did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Everything good so far (I was only upgrading the base install). Then I went > into dselect and picked all the programs and stuff that he wanted, including > GNOME for the desktop. Once all was done the xserver wouldn't start (I > accidently told it the incorrect video card), but that was easily fixed. When > I finally go GNOME to come up, the panels were in the middle of the screen and > they had regular window decorations (making me think that the problem is > actually with the window manager). > > Can someone suggest a way to fix this? The currently installed window manager > is metacity, but I can't figure out how to tell if that is where the problem > really is.
I would guess from this description that GNOME is using twm as it's WM at the moment. 'ps aux | grep twm' will tell you for sure. If it is, try running 'pkill twm ;sleep 5s;metacity&' in a (X) terminal to get metacity running. You should just need to 'save session' before you exit, and metacity will be used in the future. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Soviet cypherpunk Ortega RSA SCUD missile infowar cracking
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