[tech] Anyone know..

[Grahame Bowland]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:05:17AM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 04:07:48PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:27:50PM +1100, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> > > >>>>> "GB" == Grahame Bowland <gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> > > 
> > >     GB> gnome-session is definitely broken. gnome-panel claims to be
> > >     GB> running sawmill, but no wm is running. I tried removing
> > >     GB> sawmill and it is still broken - it just claims to be running
> > >     GB> another wm (fvwm2).
> > > 
> > >   I hate to ask but... are you sure sawmill isn't running? It
> > > definitely doesn't appear in the process list?
> > 
> > It's certainly not running. A number of gnome-session, gnome-panel, and gnome-wm 
> > processes are running, though. I've created a new session, 'Safe', which just runs 
> > xterm. That should work for now :-)
> > 
> > I even tried purging gnome-session (with --force-deps) and reinstalling it. No help 
> > though.
> 
> Look in your .gnome directory.

The point is that I'd removed all my .gnome* directories. This is with the 
defaults, which the Fresher's are getting. Incidentally, it works if they 
choose another wm and then flip back to sawmill.

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Grahame Bowland                     OCM of UCC and UniSFA, UCC syadmin

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