Gnome-panel grief in F7
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Wed Sep 12 15:05:37 UTC 2007
Hi;
Have the same problem as Beartooth.
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 14:31 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:21:53 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> > Which window manager are you using? (compiz, metacity, beryl)
>
> Aha! So that's what compiz is! It's one of the things whose
> description is fully opaque to me, but which often gets added as a
> dependency. (Fwiw, I thought it was metacity; when I resort with gnashing
> of teeth to KDE, it always claims it launches it.)
>
> Beryl I tried, and immediately started having troubles I couldn't
> kludge my way out of; I now take care when running pirut that it *not* be
> installed.
>
> > The all windows to the left corner meant the window manager was not
> > functional.
>
> Afaik, it's quite possible that both compiz and metacity are
> contending for the upper hand, and defeating one another.
>
> How do I check?? ps ax|grep on that machine, pointed at either
> metacity or compiz, reports only itself -- if that means anything ...
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
>
My problem only shows up in a second users desktop. My desktop is ok.
Can't figure out what to turn on or off? or how?
Watching this thread for a solution.
--
Regards Bill
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