switching to sawfish with ports from yesterday.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 10:32 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
> I've been using sawfish for a long time, the trick for enabling seems
> to keep changing over the years.
> 
> I have a -STABLE system running in a VMware virtual machine with a
> ports tree that was portsnap'ed within the past couple of days.  I've
> installed the gnome2 metaport.
> 
> On the advice of the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ, I've killed metacity and
> started sawfish (so far so good), then done gnome-session-save --gui
> which cases a number of messages like this:
> 
>   Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". 
> 
> but I don't get any dialog boxes w/ errors.
> 
> After exiting and restarting gnome I still end up running metacity.
> 
> I'm starting gnome from the console using startx and a .xinitrc that's
> just
> 
>    exec gnome-session
> 
> Is there a better (functional) way to get it to remember the change?

You started this thread a while ago, and you already found a working
solution.  See
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2009-January/021509.html for your original thread, and http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq224.html#q4 for details on the known session bug.

Joe

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