on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:36:32PM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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,
ps aux | grep [t]wm
...may be less ambiguous (the metacharacters '[]' won't match on
themselves.
If you have pstree installed, that might be a more useful
representation. Your windowmanager runs as the child process of your X
session or X session manager. E.g.:
|-syslogd
|-tcpspy
|-ud
|-wdm-+-XFree86
| `-wdm---WindowMaker-+-gabber---aspell
| |-galeon-bin---galeon-bin---4*[galeon-bin]
| |-jpilot
| |-mount.app
...shows a few lines of output from my current session, indicating that
my session manager (wdm) has launched both XFree86 (the X server) and
WindowMaker (my window manager), which is running multiple clients.
There should be a way to get the windowmanager spec from within the X
environment, but I'm not aware of how.
Peace.
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