Re: gnome-wm not running

[Rick Hansen <in_rapture yahoo com>]

Ok a little more info on this subject. It appears that
sawfish is not able to register itself with the
session manager. I noticed that when sawfish does run,
gnome-session hangs waiting for it to finish
registering for about 30 seconds. So I changed my
gnome-session in the .xinitrc file to:  

gnome-session --purge-delay=0

And sure enough the gnome-session will hang forever
waiting for sawfish to register itself. Any clues why
sawfish could be having trouble registering? And after
looking at .gnome/session right after I start gnome
for the first time I did notice that the gnome-wm was
never given a proper id. it still contained the
default id.( default2) Hrm ... this is frustrating. 
By the by I am using sawfish .38. All gnome apps and
libs were compiled from source. I did find a temporary
work around. I made my .xinitrc look like this:

sawfish &
gnome-session

That seems to get a windows manager up and running and
doesnt apear to cause any problems. I can even
configure it from the gnome control center. Does
anyone know if this will cause any problems, crashes,
political strife both at home and abroad? I would
really like to have gnome-session take care of
starting the windows manager for me so I ask once
again if anyone knows anything I would love to hear
suggestions.

Thanks again
Rick Hansen



--- Rick Hansen <in_rapture yahoo com> wrote:
> I am having a bit of a problem with the gnome-wm
> portion of my .gnome/session file disapearing. Let
> me
> run you through what happens. I remove all .gnome
> files and fire up X. Gnome comes up perfectly.
> Sawfish
> fires up and everything works as it should. I
> shutdown
> gnome, and fire X up once again. This time
> everything
> comes up OK with the one exception that the order in
> which all them gnome icons that show up in the
> splash
> screen are in a different order. But that doesnt
> effect anything. I check .gnome/session and
> everything
> seems to be OK. I shut gnome down again. Then fire
> up
> X for the 3rd time. This time sawfish doesnt come
> up.
> Gnome complains that there isnt a gnome compliant
> windows manager, and sure enough sawfish isnt
> running.
> I check .gnome/session and low and behold the
> gnome-wm
> lines arent there. During the gnome shutdown process
> it deletes those lines from the .gnome/session file.
> I
> have absolutely no idea whats going on. If anyone
> has
> any ideas why gnome has decided that I dont need to
> have a windows manager fire up I would love to hear
> about it. This happens for root, as well as non-root
> users. And happens exactly as I explained it every
> time. I dont have to do anything but start gnome and
> stop it. I've deleted my .gnome and .sawfish
> directories in the hopes that maybe there were some
> probs but with no luck. If anyone knows how I can
> even
> trouble shoot this problem I would love to hear
> about
> it. This is a fresh compile/install of 1.4.0.1.
> Everything else seems fine.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick Hansen


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