[OpenIndiana-discuss] Window manager problems after upgrade to oi_151a9

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I tried left-clicking on empty space in the desktop background... and it 
got worse!

First nothing, and I clicked again.... now the terminal window disappeared.

And the background menu wouldn't stick, it'd just blink on for like 100 
millisecs....

So I had to go to another SunRay and login as another user, start a 
terminal and su, beadm activate <oldOI> and reboot....

:-) Ain't life interesting!


On 2014-02-04 09:39, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> well, I guess I used to it (in my /hipster oi_151a181):
> I have noticed if I left click on empty space in background, panels 
> come back.
>
> No guarantee that it will work on a9 though. Just an idea.
>
> And since I use /hipster, I gave up of finding someone willing to fix 
> things.
>
> Regards.
>
> On 02/ 4/14 09:32 AM, 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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