Launch metacity -- how by default??

Sam Sharpe lists.redhat at samsharpe.net
Mon Dec 6 02:10:21 UTC 2010


On 5 December 2010 16:16, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:40:53 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
<snip>
>        I'm obviously not getting my question across. How do I get it to
> launch *on* *boot* -- knowing that it does not now.

I think you missed Joe's useful post, which tells you how to check
that metacity is the Window Manager that gnome will launch when you
login - which is really what you are looking for:

> Try this: open the Gnome Configuration Editor and navigate to
> /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager and change the current window
> manager to metacity.  Log out, log in and it should Just Work.

-- 
Sam


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