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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Upgraded to gnome3, WMs don't work

I followed the instructions in the wiki to upgrade from gnome2 to gnome3. Gnome3 reverted to using VESA drivers though, and since I couldn't get it to work with catalyst or xf86-video-ati I tried downgrading back to gnome2. I removed the testing repo from my pacman.conf, and ran pacman -Syuu. Everything downgraded fine, but now when I try starting gnome-session or awesome from .xinitrc, nothing comes up except the mouse pointer. I can move the pointer around fine though, and I can start xterm from .xinitrc with no problems. X doesn't print any errors.

Anybody know what the problem might be? Any advice would be much appreciated!

JokerBoy

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From: România

Registered: 2009-09-24

Posts: 641

Re: Upgraded to gnome3, WMs don't work

deleting .gnome and .gconf dirs from HOME doesn't help? don't forget to backup.

Last edited by JokerBoy (2011-04-09 08:22:03)

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Registered: 2008-03-29

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Re: Upgraded to gnome3, WMs don't work

I had to delete/move .pulse-cookie and .pulse.  Thanks so much for suggesting that, I  would've never figured that out otherwise!

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Upgraded to gnome3, WMs don't work

Moved to [testing].

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joetotale

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-05-17

Posts: 23

Re: Upgraded to gnome3, WMs don't work

Apols for crossposting, but emptying ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/ worked for me, see here.
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