Ubuntu
xfce package

gnome no window manager

Bug #154215 reported by Brian Avery on 2007-10-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	xfce (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

After installing gnome on xubuntu gutsy, logging out, and logged back in using gnome as session, no window manager starts.

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Kevin Locke (kevinoid) wrote on 2008-02-14:

Make gnome-wm check executability of $DEFWM before using it Edit (371 bytes, text/plain)

How did you install Gnome? Which window managers do you have installed (e.g. metacity)? If you try starting a window manager after logging in (i.e. from an xterm), does it start without problems?

Do you have compiz installed? I just ran across a problem on Hardy where gnome-wm makes bad decisions when compiz is not installed (since compiz is its default). I have attached a patch which fixes that problem (compiz is selected regardless of whether or not it is installed) - but I am not sure if that is the problem you are experiencing.

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote on 2008-03-01:

Anyway, that's not an xfce bug.

Changed in xfce:
status:	New → Invalid

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-12-21:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!