[lug] Gnome problem

[cool at lwn.net]

This was quite interesting.  On my PC, following the ~/.gnome/session
file makes perfect sense.  I can switch from enlightenment to sawmill
and all references to enlightenment disappear from the ~/.gnome/session
file.  Switch back to enlightenment and all references to sawmill
disappear.  Makes sense, right?

On the laptop, the ~/.gnome/session file currently references *both*
sawmill and enlightenment.  Sawmill was supposedly the default
(according to the Gnome Control Center).  I switched from Sawmill
to Enlightenment and the ~/.gnome/session file *still* references 
both window managers.  Running save-session in an xterm made no
difference.

Comparing package versions (both the PC and the laptop are running
versions of KRUD based on Red Hat 6.2), the only relevant difference
I saw was that the laptop is running enlightenment 0.16.4, where
the PC is running enlightenment 0.15.5.  The versions of the base
gnome packages are the same.

Liz Coolbaugh

> 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
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