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heljy:
I am running mandrake 8.0 with gnome (1.x) as my desktop environment. When I first setup, it has this nice window manager with icons on the desktop and the gnome panel and all that.

However, I couldnt get that back once I tried iceWM and blackbox. The only option that I have for wm is only iceWM, blackbox, and sawfish. I know that sawfish is the default WM for gnome, but when I started it, it only has a blue screen with NOTHING on it, no icons, no nice panels and only the middle mouse button works (with very limited options)  :(

Is there anyway where I can get back the orignal desktop that I have (as in the original setting).

Thanks in advance.

voidmain:
Rename any directories under your home directory that start with ".gnome" to something else. Log off and back on it should create a new default gnome desktop when you log in using the Gnome desktop option.

heljy:
I tried doing that, but it didnt work. Firstly, I start X using 'startx'. And if I use mandrake's graphical login screen, i would have to choose a default wm. So do I choose sawfish?

I am currently using iceWM by 'exec icewm' in the .xinitrc file.

Do i have to change anything?

voidmain:
I'm not sure if Mandrake is the same, but in RedHat you would run this command:

$ switchdesk GNOME

You surely should change your .xinitrc to launch Gnome rather than IceWM if that is what you want. I have 2.x and it's called "gnome-session", not sure if it was the same in 1.x. Also you might want to look at your .Xclients file if you have one.

If you don't have Gnome on your graphical login then I am wondering if you don't have it installed.

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

heljy:
Well, I will look into it. Actually I am not very bothered by it, iceWM is working great for me. Just dun like it when you cant control what you want   :D

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: heljy ]

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