switching window managers with Gnome 2.24.3 (and its session
bug)
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Jan 19 20:28:04 PST 2009
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:56 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke writes:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 15:26 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
> > > I'm fond of sawfish. I upgraded to 2.24.3 over the weekend and now
> > > can't seem to convince it to let me switch from metacity to sawfish.
> > >
> > > I run my X session using startx, which exec's a gnome-session.
> > >
> > > I've used the technique described in item 9 of the FAQ (kill metacity,
> > > start sawfish, use gnome-session to save things) to no avail.
> > >
> > > I'm assuming that it not working is related to the problem with
> > > session management in Gnome 2.24 (see item 4 in the faq224.html).
> > >
> > > As described here:
> > >
> > > http://damumbl.byteholder.de/blog/?p=44
> >
> > Yes this is the problem.
> >
> > >
> > > I've tried changing the gconf key:
> > >
> > > /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current
> > >
> > > to sawfish but I end up without a window manager and a message on my
> > > console from gnome-session that says:
> > >
> > > gnome-session[80010]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'sawfish' of
> > > required component 'windowmanager'.
> > >
> > > After messing around a bit I finally got it to work by copying
> > >
> > > /usr/local/share/gnome/wm-properties/Sawfish.desktop
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > ~/.local/share/applications/sawfish.desktop
> > >
> > > and there was much joy.
> > >
> > > Simple renaming Sawfish.desktop to sawfish.desktop in the original
> > > directory didn't seem to have any effect.
> >
> > The two are very different. You could have copied it
> > to /usr/local/share/applications, though for the same effect.
> >
> > Hopefully this session management stuff will be sorted out in GNOME
> > 2.26.
>
> Maybe someone could update
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q9
>
> with a note about the work around?
Without creating any additional files, what happens if you
set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/window_manager to
"sawfish"?
Joe
>
> Is it worth a pr?
>
> g.
>
>
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