Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:57:17 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching to sawfish with ports from yesterday. Message-ID: <18856.17821.6848.266925@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <1235761026.3297.141.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <18856.12732.229171.925418@almost.alerce.com> <1235761026.3297.141.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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: > > > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > > > but I don't get any dialog boxes w/ errors. > > > > After exiting and restarting gnome I still end up running metacity. > > > > I'm starting gnome from the console using startx and a .xinitrc that's > > just > > > > exec gnome-session > > > > 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 > [...] Thanks! They do say that the short term memory cells are the first to go. January 2009 wasn't *that* long ago. g.
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