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bgalakazam

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2008-09-01

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[SOLVED] Gnome died out on me :(

This morning when I started my computer, Gnome wasn't working properly. I tried reisntalling GDM, but that didn't help. Seems that Gnome is not startin gproperly or something. The windows don't have the title panel, also, I get message "Your window manager does not support the show desktop button, or you are not running a window manager" when I press the button. I didn't change anything yesterday so I don't know why this is like this. I tried reinstall xorg-server to both the old and the recent version, did not help. Doesn't matter if I start Gnome from GDM or startx, same issue.

Ideas?

EDIT: cannot start gnome-session, gives error no display. Here is my xorg.conf which hasn't been modified since yesterday.

http://nopaste.voric.com/paste.php?f=3zfpil

Last edited by bgalakazam (2010-03-09 00:52:01)

daf666

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome died out on me :(

Maybe the window manager is not running for real? gnome forgot that it has to run it?
After you are in Gnome, open a console window and type in "metacity" see if that works

bgalakazam

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 76

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome died out on me :(

That did it. After logout, though, it happens again. How to automate it so that it runs metacity?

toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome died out on me :(

.xinitrc?

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