Window manager problem again?
Knute Johnson
linux at rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com
Sun Jul 15 18:47:50 UTC 2007
Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:26:24 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>
>> I've been having problems with the Livna driver for my Nvidia video
>> card
>> so I took it out and now there is no window manager. If I run
>> 'metacity' from a terminal it looks fine. Is metacity the default
>> window manager for the Gnome version of F7? How do I get a window
>> manager to load on bootup?
>>
>
> Perhaps you had Compiz enabled when you were using the Livna driver? Use
> the "Desktop Effects" control to turn it off, which will enable Metacity
> in place of Compiz+gtk-window-decorator. (/usr/bin/gnome-wm has code
> that should handle this case but doesn't).
>
> --
> Chris Tyler
> http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com
>
>
Thanks Chris, that was the problem and it is fixed now.
knute...
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