Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:57:06 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching to sawfish with ports from yesterday. Message-ID: <1235761026.3297.141.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <18856.12732.229171.925418@almost.alerce.com> References: <18856.12732.229171.925418@almost.alerce.com>
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--=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 10:32 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > I've been using sawfish for a long time, the trick for enabling seems > to keep changing over the years. >=20 > I have a -STABLE system running in a VMware virtual machine with a > ports tree that was portsnap'ed within the past couple of days. I've > installed the gnome2 metaport. >=20 > On the advice of the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ, I've killed metacity and > started sawfish (so far so good), then done gnome-session-save --gui > which cases a number of messages like this: >=20 > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".=20 >=20 > but I don't get any dialog boxes w/ errors. >=20 > After exiting and restarting gnome I still end up running metacity. >=20 > I'm starting gnome from the console using startx and a .xinitrc that's > just >=20 > exec gnome-session >=20 > Is there a better (functional) way to get it to remember the change? You started this thread a while ago, and you already found a working solution. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2009-January/021509.html f= or your original thread, and http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq224.html#= q4 for details on the known session bug. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmoN3cACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4deoQCcCyq8XmHf22i8+56S5Ol7utEO N9YAmwZacbR9V+G2nxgG7EVdfKqlsx2W =erlq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pUEcDdSkEvAtUr0qZV3v--
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