Launch metacity -- how by default??

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 20:44:33 +0000,
  Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 	Simply commanding "metacity" at a root prompt fixed the problems, 
> sure enough! But I had failed to put an ampersand after the command, and 
> knew no other way to get my prompt back was ^C. That not only stopped 
> metacity, but gave me other troubles enough to force me to log out and 
> back in.

Use ^Z to suspend the process. You can start it in the background using bg.