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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bruce, If you can fire up any window manager, it should allow you to manipulate your windows, bail out cleanly, or whatever you'd like to do (go back to Yast and turn off 3D, etc). For KDE, the window manager is /opt/kde3/bin/kwin, if I'm not mistaken. If there is one terminal window available in which you can type a command, try that and see if it starts the window manager. Failing that, can you get to a text console via Ctrl-Alt-F1 ? If so, try this: (setenv DISPLAY :0; /opt/kde3/bin/kwin)& or (export DISPLAY=:0; /opt/kde3/bin/kwin)& The first command works in (t)csh, while the other works in BASH, depending on which is your login shell. If you haven't explicitly modified it, it will be bash, in which case the 2nd command should work. You could also get to a text console, log in as root, and drop to runlevel 3 (which would kill off your X windows session) thus: telinit 3 To restart X windows, try this: telinit 5 You could also run YaST from the text console. The interface isn't as pretty, and it doesn't use the mouse (think tabs and arrow keys), but it is perfectly functional. There should be no need to reboot. I hope this helps, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF6NPYHl0iXDssISsRAq/uAJ0Z+qzCOR9/whW01Xbt08Q2B5rd/gCdHesi p/k/obqiqpuTt4Z1zhNNYt0= =9a9K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andy Stewart wrote:
Hi Bruce,
If you can fire up any window manager, it should allow you to manipulate your windows, bail out cleanly, or whatever you'd like to do (go back to Yast and turn off 3D, etc).
For KDE, the window manager is /opt/kde3/bin/kwin, if I'm not mistaken. If there is one terminal window available in which you can type a command, try that and see if it starts the window manager.
Oops, now I've just read that you are using Gnome. OK, same thing applies, but substitute in the name of the Gnome window manager. I don't know what that might be, unfortunately. I'm sure somebody else will chime in with that information. I assumed KDE because that's pretty standard for SuSE. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF6NRBHl0iXDssISsRAnH6AJ4xsbRIwo2yWs833FBZEU14rEO0yQCfUiDh vy2/9rl4hLHfLnddzIE0Ono= =8wLi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andy Stewart wrote:
Andy Stewart wrote:
Hi Bruce,
If you can fire up any window manager, it should allow you to manipulate your windows, bail out cleanly, or whatever you'd like to do (go back to Yast and turn off 3D, etc).
For KDE, the window manager is /opt/kde3/bin/kwin, if I'm not mistaken. If there is one terminal window available in which you can type a command, try that and see if it starts the window manager.
Oops, now I've just read that you are using Gnome. OK, same thing applies, but substitute in the name of the Gnome window manager. I don't know what that might be, unfortunately. I'm sure somebody else will chime in with that information.
Try this: /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-wm - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF6NWwHl0iXDssISsRAlMrAJ9Cs61hrvkS20MNoy81u79vRiOmbACeM3ZQ 7KSGDgmN7rzzFJ9BGilpwbQ= =2+Lo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
What is the content of ~/.xinitrc on your system? Mine for gnome (I suspect it broke yours): eastein@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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