lost most gdm features/functions after today's update...

[Rahul Sundaram]

Clifford Snow wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:07 -0700, Tom London wrote:
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>>After today's new packages, I seem to have lost most window manager features:
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>>I cannot raise windows by usual cursor/button actions, I've lost the
>>window-manager frame around my windows, starting an app from the panel
>>creates the window in the absolute upper left position of the screen,
>>overlaying the panel, my window selector applet reports that I have no
>>windows, and the 'show desktop applet' says:
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>>Your window manager does not support the show desktop button, or you
>>are not running a window manager.
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>>I've tried 'backing out' gtk2 and xorg-x11-xinit, but still not working.
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>Same results here.  
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>What is the default windows manager these days?
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For GNOME? It's metacity. failsafe session uses twm.

Rahul