AW: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

Hi,

thanks for the reply, I'll try this, when I'm home this evening


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a
lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading
gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using
gnome 2.16.
> >
> > I used a unstable version of gnome-2.18 once and downgraded because
of this problem. Nobody able to solve this problem.
> >
> > Matthias, can you post your 'very hackish way' please
>
> well, it's nothing special:
>
> "
> #!/bin/bash
> ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity &> /dev/null && metacity& "
>
> put this in a file somewhere in your home directory, make it
> executable and add it to "Startup Programs" in "Sessions"...
>

or, if you want it more verbose:

"
#!/bin/bash

LOGFILE="${HOME}/meta.log"
COMPLAIN="metacity was not started by gnome"

ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity &> /dev/null if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
        echo "$(date): $COMPLAIN" >> $LOGFILE
        metacity&
fi
"

matthias

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