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 1IfLzh-0003Ib-Qq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:47:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l99KapVT006576; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:36:51 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 l99KVNrw031524 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:31:23 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Oct 2007 20:31:23 -0000 Received: from chello080108115144.1.11.univie.teleweb.at (EHLO [192.168.0.64]) [80.108.115.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 09 Oct 2007 22:31:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28563408 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/blAJc9vfb/HbCzLiIZaevZSw8x9LOX577Laj1Cp gQaPQOqLS6A1kC Subject: Re: AW: 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> <1191931820.4675.25.camel@vega.lnet> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:31:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1191961913.5503.3.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: 501e4dcd-c578-439e-8df8-615068e6f737 X-Archives-Hash: b0729e3d86a344ef3c2d79eb70e23d82 On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16. > > I used a unstable version of gnome-2.18 once and downgraded because of this problem. Nobody able to solve this problem. > > Matthias, can you post your 'very hackish way' please well, it's nothing special: " #!/bin/bash ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity &> /dev/null && metacity& " put this in a file somewhere in your home directory, make it executable and add it to "Startup Programs" in "Sessions"... this does the trick at least for me... regards, matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list