From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfE9y-00035b-Aw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:26:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l99CESR7002174; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:14:28 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l99C9lOn028995 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:09:47 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Oct 2007 12:09:46 -0000 Received: from chello080108115144.1.11.univie.teleweb.at (EHLO [192.168.0.64]) [80.108.115.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 09 Oct 2007 14:09:46 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28563408 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19l5mcpcVxlvnKx00Oja/nFy71DWfz4i2I7e8t8YC +ttSbNjdvveqP2 Subject: Re: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start From: Matthias Langer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1191801059.7046.12.camel@vega.lnet> <1191805322.10151.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:10:20 +0200 Message-Id: <1191931820.4675.25.camel@vega.lnet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 0417b9a1-de25-4e04-a31d-370bcd87badd X-Archives-Hash: 548fad7455ee80b770044598056a128c On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:40 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: > >> I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and > ~/.gnome2_private > hmm, although i've installed gentoo only about 2 month ago, i don't want to loose all my personal settings; i've created a new user - and it seems to work there - but maybe only because i've never really *used* this account... i'm already thinking about solving this problem in a very hackish way: by writing a script that is called on startup and eventually starts metacity for me... hopefully i find a better solution. > > Hi, I have the same problem here. Deleting the files help, but not for > long. After 3-4 Logins without any problem, the problem returns. > yes, and i fear that the same would happen to me :-/. regards, matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list