[lug] Gnome problem

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Liz" == cool  <cool at lwn.net> writes:

Liz> I'm having a problem with Gnome.  The default window manager is
Liz> enlightenment, which on my laptop, is quite slow to come up.  I
Liz> used the Gnome Control Center to switch the default to Sawmill.
Liz> This works during the session where I make the change, but, even
Liz> though I've saved my session settings (multiple) times, when I
Liz> restart X, enlightenment comes up anyway.  If I go into the
Liz> control center, it shows Sawmill as the window manager and the
Liz> file .gnome/wm-properties/Config reports "Current=Sawmill".

What does it say in ~/.gnome/session?  That is the file that the
session manager looks at when deciding what to launch at startup.

One thing to try is changing your wm to Sawmill, and then running
`save-session' from xterm.  After that see if .gnome/session has
changed.

Tom