[OpenIndiana-discuss] small added info Re: Window manager problems after upgrade to oi_151a9

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I looked again, and those windows flashing by are the ones I'd expect on 
logging back into oi_151a7, i e the ones I have on my desktop's various 
workspaces. So no surprise there.

On 2014-02-04 09:32, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> I upgraded from oi_151a7 to oi_151a9 yesterday (some of you may have 
> noticed! :-) ) and now I have a strange but consistent problem with 
> the window manager in the new BE.
>
> I log in, which looks nice, gdm seems to act the way it should, and 
> when I get in, an open terminal window appears, all the icons I expect 
> on the desktop appear, but the panels of the window manager do not 
> appear.
>
> I thus have no useful window manager available,
>
> From the terminal window, I tried
>
> metacity --replace
>
> and something flashes by, I think it is an open window or two, but 
> from the session I was running when I performed the OS upgrade, and 
> then nothing, no panels no control.
>
> The desktop background right-click menu is available, but that's it.
>
> Some GConf problem, or what???
>
> I also tried
>
> compiz --replace
>
> and the result was, as far as I could determine, identical.
>
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