[Wlug] Window manager problem

[Eric Stein]

What is the content of ~/.xinitrc on your system?

Mine for gnome (I suspect it broke yours):

eastein at glamdring:/home/eastein$ cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
gnome-session

Eric

Bruce Linnell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running openSuSE 10.2, and decided I wanted to try some of the 3D
> Desktop effects. So I tried activating them through the YaST control
> panel. Now not only do I not have 3D effects, I seem to have lost my
> window manager as well. I can open apps and applets, utilities and
> folders, but none have a title bar to grab for moving the window, and
> none have the max, min, and close buttons, and if it doesn't have a
> close or quit option in a drop down menu, I can't close it (them). 
>
> So I end up with a screen full of unmoveable, unresizeable, and in some
> cases, uncloseable windows. It reminds me of an old steamer trunk with
> decals plastered all over it.
>
> The boot screen only shows 2 icons just prior to opening the desktop:
> the desktop icon, and the Gnome footprint icon. The double window icon
> is no longer there.
>
> Booting as root is normal with all 3 icons in the splash screen, and
> full window(s) functionality. So this problem seems contained to my user
> account.
>
> I'm hopeful that restoring the window manager will also let me configure
> the 3D effects, but if not, I'd like to get back to normal. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Bruce
>
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