how can i get gnome to use metacity instead of twm?

garba · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 27

this is the kind of situation that makes me hate gnome... :cry:

i emerged gnome, started it but it complains because of the lack of a gnome-compliant windows-manager... hence i emerged metacity but I could't find one piece of useful information as how to get gnome to use metacity rather than that horrible twm thing... any clue? thanks in advance for your help

nixnut · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject:

Edit /etc/rc.conf and remove the # from the line #XSESSION="Gnome"
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garba · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 27

thx, had tried that already but didnt work... no problem, im trying xfce now ^^

eniac · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

I'm not using gnome right now so I'm guessing on some of the applications names etc ..

* open gnome-session-manager
* click your wm and select trash in the dropdown box
* killall yourwm && yournewwm&
* go back to your session manager and select the right option (can't reclall) from the drop down box
* restart gnome and it should use yournewwm
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