Metacity as windows manager in KDE 4.5.1

[piedro]

Hi!

In the systemsettings of KDE 4.5.1 (working on lucid lynx) I set the windows manager in "default applications" to "metacity".
I hope to get the same design of applications like I did set up in gnome.

This seems to work kind of, but metacity doesn't find the same icon sets it finds within gnome (same user!).

So I have all my symbols and stuff on my desktop, but using some outdated standard symbols - probaly gnome default or something.

How can I make the metacity appearance to lok for hte decorations and icons in the same place it does when using gnome?

thx,
piedro

[regala]

Hi!

How can I make the metacity appearance to lok for hte decorations and icons in the same place it does when using gnome?

all appearance and icons settings are "set up" by gnome-settings-daemon which does it for every application running in a gnome session. maybe trying and running gnome-settings-daemon would solve this, but bear in mind, this could not work and wouldn't be considered a bug at all by both teams

br, mathieu

[piedro]

thx for answering!


so how to run the gnome-settings.daemon?
when I run this in a terminal I get:

"Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon"

and i have no idea what it does mean.

any hints?

thx,
piedro

[regala]

thx for answering!


so how to run the gnome-settings.daemon?
when I run this in a terminal I get:

"Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon"

and i have no idea what it does mean.

any hints?

thx,
piedro

means something about dbus...
what if "dbus-launch gnome-settings-daemon" ?

br
ms