From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco Calistri" Subject: Re: switching window managers Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:12:35 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030324191235.14120.qmail@linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org> References: <200303230453.h2N4rb3T024680@hartford-hwp.com> Reply-To: ik5bcu@tin.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200303230453.h2N4rb3T024680@hartford-hwp.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Haines Brown Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 23-Mar-2003 Haines Brown wrote: >> Hello Haines,Im using IceWm as well from very few days and I simply run: >> >> xinit /usr/local/bin/icewm --:0 >> >> from terminal when I'am here on my RHL-7.3 box,or even run: > > Thanks Marco, but I managed to get myself into trouble. When runing > IceWM, I was using its panel at the same time as gnome's desktop > switcher. They seemed to get along, but unfortunately, they had > conflicing keybindings, and as soon as I typed a key that had > conflicting purposes, X crashed. > > I got X working and am now back in gnome to start again. However, I > seem to have damaged gnome desktop switcher because panel crashes as > it is loaded. I need to configure gnome not to run the desktop switcher, > but don't know how to do it. Hello Haines,AFAIK if you remove your ~/.gnome* dirs. then you will be able to restart a fresh gnome desktop... > Do you happen to know the name of the gnome desktop switcher > executable and its configuration file? Do you know which panel file > calls the desktop switcher? I'm caught in a gnome panel crash loop, > and so was forced to use another account (root has same trouble as > regular user) in order to use X apps. switchdesk-gnome-3.9.8-2 [marco@linux marco]$ rpm -qil gnome-switchdesk package gnome-switchdesk is not installed [marco@linux marco]$ rpm -qil switchdesk-gnome Name : switchdesk-gnome Relocations: /usr Version : 3.9.8 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 2 Build Date: mar 16 apr 2002 21:22:48 CEST Install date: dom 22 dic 2002 15:45:52 CET Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : User Interface/Desktops Source RPM: switchdesk-3.9.8-2.src.rpm Size : 17327 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. Summary : A GNOME interface for the Desktop Switcher. Description : The switchdesk-gnome package provides a GNOME look and feel for the Desktop Switcher program provided in the switchdesk package. /usr/bin/switchdesk-gnome Furthermore an useful hint from an old message: "Slough, Kelle" writes: > Unfortunately though, I cannot get the panel back. Does anyone have any > ideas on how I can restore the panel? As an FYI, I did install the latest > fixes afterwards and that has not corrected the problem. Just run the panel in a terminal (type "panel") and then type "save-session" after the panel starts. Havoc > Haines Brown Good Luck! Marco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs