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#1 2008-07-04 12:47:10

simulacra
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GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

Hello all,

Just moved back to Arch on my laptop. I Installed GNOME. As a normal user I set up my .xinitrc to "exec gnome-session"
did "startx" and gnome starts, but for some reason it uses twm instead of metacity as it's display manager???


Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Norm

Solution: Thanks meandean

meandean wrote:

be sure you have metacity installed
kill twm, start metacity
go into gnome-session tool and set metacity to start/respawn
should do it

Why is twm installed anyway?

I am a debian user, not arch so excuse my ignorance if it is showing big_smile

Last edited by simulacra (2009-10-28 16:38:18)

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#2 2008-07-04 13:10:56

strankan
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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

No suggestion, but that looks really ugly smile

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#3 2008-07-04 16:55:52

simulacra
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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

Yeah, it does. I also tried using  GDM but that did not good either.:(

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#4 2008-07-04 17:03:44

meandean
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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

be sure you have metacity installed
kill twm, start metacity
go into gnome-session tool and set metacity to start/respawn
should do it

Why is twm installed anyway?

I am a debian user, not arch so excuse my ignorance if it is showing big_smile

Last edited by meandean (2008-07-04 17:04:30)


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#5 2008-07-04 17:32:40

heleos
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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

metacity may also have a -replace option? I haven't used gnome much so I'm not sure.

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#6 2008-07-04 17:41:42

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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

twm get installed when you install the xorg group. it's a fall back I guess.


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#7 2008-07-05 19:05:50

simulacra
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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

Thanks so much for all the advice. As it turns out metacity was not installed. I thought that was a gnome core dependency, guess I was wrong. Thanks for all the help.

Norm

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#8 2008-07-05 19:22:55

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Re: GNOME using twm instead of metacity?? [SOLVED]

cool beans....glad you got it....


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