Gnome-panel grief in F7

[Jim Cornette]

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.) 

I use metacity but tried compiz for a short time. Compiz is metacity 
with 3D enhancements added to it. Metacity seems more stable but does 
not have the eye candy.

Running in a terminal 'metacity --replace &' should make metacity stop 
compiz and run itself in the place of. To make this permanent for the 
next boot, you have to save the gnome session.
> 
> 	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.

They shouldn't but I'm not ruling out the possibility both could be 
loaded together. I always got messages that another window manager was 
already running and it exited if --replace was not issued on the command 
line.


> 
> 	How do I check?? ps ax|grep on that machine, pointed at either 
> metacity or compiz, reports only itself -- if that means anything ...
> 
I use ps and grep as you asked. They should specify what WM is active. 
When the windows are all off to the left, no WM is probably running.

Jim


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