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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
be sure you have metacity installed
kill twm, start metacity
go into gnome-session tool and set metacity to start/respawn
should do itWhy is twm installed anyway?
I am a debian user, not arch so excuse my ignorance if it is showing
Last edited by simulacra (2009-10-28 16:38:18)
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No suggestion, but that looks really ugly
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Yeah, it does. I also tried using GDM but that did not good either.:(
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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
Last edited by meandean (2008-07-04 17:04:30)
Even a chicken can install Debian, when you put enough grain on the enter key.
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metacity may also have a -replace option? I haven't used gnome much so I'm not sure.
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twm get installed when you install the xorg group. it's a fall back I guess.
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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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cool beans....glad you got it....
Even a chicken can install Debian, when you put enough grain on the enter key.
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