Re: GNOME2 not starting correctly

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 23:20, Ivens Porto wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I successfully installed gnome2 from sources in my machine (I followed
> the GNOME Instalation guide, found on
> http://www.karubik.de/gig/2.0/index.html) but after instalation gnome2
> does not start correctly. I installed all packages listed in the GNOME
> Instalation guide except nautilus and mozilla and games.
> 
> I'm running Debian 2.2r2 on a Pentium 500MHz with 196MB of RAM, XFree86
> 4.0 and libc 2.1.3.
> 
> After compiling and installing the packages I configured my system so
> the startx script would use gnome-session to start gnome2 (I'm currently
> using ice window manager).
> 
> gnome2 starts, but all my windows have no borders (I can't even move the
> windows) and there's no desktop (no icons appears on top of the
> background, and I can't create new icons on the desktop). I can't switch
> to another workspace either.
> 
> The Menu Panel and Bottom edge panel are working, all applications are
> working, for example, gnome-terminal, mrproject, etc. The gnome2
> applications also works when I'm using ice window manager, when doing
> this the applications windows have borders and works fine.
> 
> It seems as if sawfish is not starting, but using ps I see that sawfish
> is running. I try to configure sawfish going to Desktop
> Preferences->Advanced->Sawfish, but none of the configuration options
> works (for example, Focus Behavior), I click on a configuration option
> and nothing happens.
> 
> Anyone can help?
> 

if you have metacity installed try killall sawfish;sleep 1;metacity to
test if it is a sawfish problem
> Regards,
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