Gnome on Gentoo

nealh5441 · 10-30-2004, 05:38 PM

I've been using KDE exclusively on my Gentoo box, but I wanted to try Gnome, so I did an emrege for Gnome 2.6.2-rc1 and an etc-update and everything went well with no errors. However, when I try to run Gnome, I get the Gnome environment, but with the TWM window manager instead of Metacity. Does anyone know how to correct this problem? Thanks.

wapcaplet · 10-30-2004, 10:36 PM

Just a guess, but metacity is a separate package. Did that get emerged too?

nealh5441 · 10-30-2004, 11:08 PM

Yes I did. If I kill TWM I can start Metacity manually, but I don't know what file to edit to make Metacity the permanent choice.

wapcaplet · 10-31-2004, 12:01 AM

Hmm, haven't used Gnome in quite some time. I suspect there's some kind of configuration file in ~/.gnome or a similar place, but I couldn't tell you what it might be called. Perhaps you can:

Code:

grep -iR twm ~/*

to see what files within any subdirectory of your home directory have the text "twm" in them. Perhaps someone else can offer more specific guidance.

r0b0 · 10-31-2004, 02:50 AM

Hmm.. have you tried the hard-core approach?

killall twm && metacity &

Then when logging out, check the save session box.