[OpenIndiana-discuss] No ideas, ANYONE???!! Re: Window manager problems after upgrade to oi_151a9

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I'm really out on a limb.

Help!

On 2014-02-04 10:36, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> 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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