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

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I did try that, and compiz wasn't running and visual effects were off.


On 2014-02-04 18:59, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just an idea:
>
> IF your problem might be related to compiz (mine was acting up the other day, will try with latest /hipster update)
> 	AND
> IF you can access a terminal (maybe ALT+F2 still works if GNOME isn't totally dead)
> 	THEN
> you can try gnome-appearance-properties and that should open the appearance settings, so you can go under that visual effects tab and disable it.
>
> Again, just an idea.
>
>    Bryan
>
> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:26:34 +0100
> "Hans J. Albertsson" <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>
>> 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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