Hello!
Due to personal preference, on my old machine, which uses XFCE as desktop, I have changed the default window manager to metacity.
Now I want to do the same on my new machine, but unfortunately I have both forgotten what I had done exactly and cannot find a satisfying solution on the web either.
My window manager seems to have broke (xfce). I don't see windows around borders, the mouse doesn't display, and i cannot open the "window manager" settings from the menu (the xorg text tty says my window manager is unknown). The panel still loads but doesn't display my desktops correctly (only shows 1, i have 2). How can i find out why this might have happened?
I've a problem with running an xfce session on a desktop computer. All window decorations are gone, in the settings manager I can't change the settings of the window manager (clicking on window manager gives me an empty screen, with just the return, help and close buttons). In firefox the menu's are unusable.
Im running #!Statler XFCE, was trying out different window-manager-styles (ie, xfce4-settings-manager -> window-decorations (mine is in swedish tho so I might not have gotten the eng name right, just guessing)), and when i picked one of them X crashed and threw me to gdm login. When I try to login as usual (Xsession), I get instantly kicked out again.
I am curious about the scheme that metacity uses to determine the window position for a new window not in session manager. Like if I spawn a new window through X11. Any help would be appreciated.
I normally enjoy using Gnome 3 and gnome-shell in Fedora 16. However, I would like to temporarily run a non-compositing window manager such as metacity so that some wine games can have full control of the display.
I have metacity installed.
Someone was asking how they could help with Metacity. Here are some thoughts.
Is it possible to make Xfce window manager to open certain applications fullscreen by default? For example i want Emacs in Xfce to be always run fullscreen on start.
I tried searching through Xfce wiki, Xfce page on Arch wiki and Unix.SE with AskUbuntu, no solution yet.
This is a good one and extra kudos to anyone who can help me resolve it:
On a whim I installed an alternative Window manager for my Fedora 12 install called Enlightenment (http://www.enlightenment.org/) from here:
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