How to switch to metacity from the command line [Re: X not working with latest updates]

Adam Huffman adam.huffman at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 13:42:26 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 09:08 +0000, Adam Huffman wrote:
>
>  > By creating a new user who isn't running compiz, I'm able to get in to
>  > X now.  Is there some way of changing back to metacity from the
>  > command line?
>
>  gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome-session/rh/window_manager -t string metacity
>

Thanks a lot for that - I now have a working X and even the up-arrow
key works as well, after I edited that HAL file.

Adam




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