[SOLVED] Odd window manager problem...

I have installed Arch and a full Gnome DE. However when I start gnome, I get an odd window manager. I tried metacity and metacity --replace in a terminal, but I just get "Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager"
Here is what it looks like:
Any way I can get some metacity going?
Edit: [SOLVED]
I just put metacity as startup application and restarted. Still not sure what that window manager was, but I'll be okay I guess...
Last edited by phohammer (2010-03-03 02:59:43)

sand_man wrote:
haha you had gnome running with twm as the window manager instead of metacity.
You need to put 'exec gnome-session' in your .xinitrc file.
twm huh? Well that's a new one for me!
I tried to do that but the .xinitrc file didn't exist yet and I wasn't sure if I should make it...I think I tried ~/.xinitrc . Would it be in another directory?

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Depth 8
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Depth 16
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Depth 24
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display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
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client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
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GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
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GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
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GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
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OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI G400 20061030 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2
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Where can I learn a bit more about how window sizing / positioning works in GNOME 3.8, or is it finally time to switch to awesome wm? I want to love GNOME 3.8, I really do. It's so slick, but so... unpolished.
I want to dig in an assist with problems like these, but I need some pointers to some background material first to understand the problem. Is it the window manager? Is it the app?
** UPDATE: Doing a full system upgrade, as of May 18, 2013, has resolved this annoying problem. My windows now stay where they belong, and start with the same size they were closed with. GNOME is now pleasant to use again :-)
Last edited by dawid.loubser (2013-05-21 13:37:25)

dawid.loubser wrote:Thanks for the suggestion drtebi - I'll give it a try.
I really like GNOME 3.x though (and would like to understand the windowing behaviour), but if the annoying quirks are insurmountable, I will happily switch.
Man I love GNOME 3.x. I admire the courage they had to change, basically, everything, and I find myself more productive with my GNOME 3 Arch box than with my good ol' Slackware KDE 4 box. I just hate those bugs - for example I filed a task in their bugtracker for this window resize problem I have with gedit. If it's a love/hate relationship, I think it's marriage ^_^
With the 3.8 upgrade, deadbeef was having a similar problem with window size/position. I just recompiled it against the latest GTK+3 package upgrade (that came after the 'big upgrade' here on Arch) and it was fixed. But not with gedit
bwat47 wrote:
Man I really hope this gets fixed soon, because aside from this one incredibly annoying issue I am loving gnome 3.8.
I get the feeling gnome badly needs more beta testers, sizable regressions like this in "stable" releases happen way too often sad.
I get the exact same feeling. Well bugs exist everywhere, there's no denying. But I think it would be wiser to 'alternate' the nature of each major stable release - one focusing on new features and one focusing on fixing bugs. For example if the only new features in GNOME 3.10 were the AppsFolder full implementation and the introduction of gnome-calendar, and the rest of the development cicle being devoted to fix bugs, I'd be more than happy.
Like Fedora and Ubuntu, the fixed 6-month release cycle colaborates with the bugs. They don't do like Debian or Slackware which are released 'when they are ready'.
EDIT: fout (yet) another bug. At least with facebook chat (haven't tested with other telepathy plugins) the buddy tray icon appear duplicate. Anybody with the same issue?
Last edited by lmello (2013-05-02 14:06:06)

CDE Window Manager configuration problem (Sol 8)

Hi
I have a strange problem with CDE. After having a proper PC instalation done, as I log in the CDE I get black background and only 2 windows ( a kind of help window and the File Manager) The windows don't have title bars, cannot be moved ot whatever. Now, I seems to me that the window manager failed to start. Since I'm new to Solaris, can anybody give me a hint where I can find the configuration scripts and error logs.
Thanks
Val

if it were me I'd check /var/dt/Xerrors (Xservers log file)
$HOME/.dt/errorlog & startlogs for clues ... this is where CDE would log
problems.
However you mentioned PC so I'll assume you are using ReflectionsX,
Exceed
or similar, all come with a log file and trace utility via the Xconfig
screen
which maybe worth your while looking into ?
As to the window manager failing to start .... the process is called
dtlogin
and on the Solaris server you should see one parent process + 1 child per
remote display if things are working correctly.
Gotcha's : most likely problems are caused by either Fonts - check PC
Xemulation log files or hostname resolution problems.

[Solved]Cannot execute i3 window manager

I installed i3 tiling window manager along with kde(kde could be executed),and follow the step written in i3's wiki:
Edit ~/.xinitrc and add:
exec i3
exec i3 -V >>~/.i3/i3log >&1
and cp /etc/i3/config ~/.i3/config,after these steps I still cannot execute i3 wm, could anyone tell me what I missed?
appreciate your reply.
Last edited by tomisacat (2012-07-20 05:14:29)

hesse wrote:
tomisacat wrote:
I installed i3 tiling window manager along with kde(kde could be executed),and follow the step written in i3's wiki:
Edit ~/.xinitrc and add:
exec i3
exec i3 -V >>~/.i3/i3log >&1
You should add just one of the above exec statements by the way, and it should be on the last line in ~/.xinitrc. The second line is preferred if you want to log messages from i3 while it's running. To start a window manager manually from a console use
xinit /full/path/to/i3
Thank you,it seems worked.

[SOLVED] Mouse-friendly dwm window manager?

Dear all,
I use the dwm window manager (version 6.0). I think I remember that some time ago in the suckless website
there was some part where they presented some configuration for extended mouse support. Not sure if I
recall correctly but, in any case, I can't find something like this any more.
Does anybody have any hints on that? Any links or advice regarding extended mouse support for dwm?
Thanks in advance..
Last edited by geo909 (2012-04-23 19:52:45)

Unia wrote:
What exactly is it you think is 'extended'? DWM supports the mouse as much as any other tiler, ie you can move windows with the mouse. There's also the tilemovemouse patch/extension that I think (never used it myself) lets you move tiled windows with the mouse. Find it here:
https://github.com/ok100/dwm/blob/maste … ovemouse.c
wolfcore wrote:Well for starters you can customize the button definitions in config.h...
Thanks! The tilemovemouse patch will definitely help.. And I realize I wasn't clear enough
when I was saying 'extended'.
I eventually found many of the things that I was looking for here:
http://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/customfuncs
and that helped me understand better how the config.h works..
I think some customization along with the tilemovemouse patch
would be pretty complete for me..
Last edited by geo909 (2012-04-23 19:52:32)

[SOLVED] Odd window manager problem...

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