On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:59:58AM +0100, hdfssk wrote: > Michal, I ran into the same thing trying to replace metacity with > e16. The problem is that gnome expects to find a desktop file in > /usr/share/applications matching the value in > desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager.. in your > case it's looking for /usr/share/applications/wmaker.desktop.. That was somebody else who tried windowmaker. I never used that particular manager but these are details. > and if that desktop file isn't there, it won't start your window > manager, logging "WARNING: Unable to find provider 'wmaker' of > required component 'windowmanager'" to ~/.xsessions-error. That I figured out from what may pass for a "documentation", i.e. a comment in /usr/bin/gnome-wm which says: # NOTE: DON'T USE THIS. Please have your window manager install # a desktop file and change the gconf key # /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager The problem was that at a time of my attempts this still did not work. Of course what "a desktop file" need to contain is left to your divinations. > Adding a wmaker.desktop file to /usr/share/applications should fix > this.. After your posting I tried again and this time this indeed helped. Maybe my sawfish.desktop file, with which I was exerimenting, was missing something although I modified it from a copy of an existing metacity.desktop. Or maybe I was trying "too early"? This detail that in gconf you also have /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default and /apps/gnome-session/rh/window_manager surely does not help. Especially when you are using GUI it is very easy to mix things up. Note differences between "window_manager" and "windowmanager". Thanks, Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
