[SOLVED] Metacity

[dozersmasher]

Ok, huge prob: I tried to switch metacity for XFWM4, now I want to switch back, but can't. It is very annoying when I have to start it manually. Does anyone know how to change the WM to Metacity in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon?

[sdennie]

Is it possible that you saved your sessions with XFWM4? One thing to try would be to login, switch to metacity (Alt-F2 then metacity --replace) then go to System->Preferences->Sessions->Session Options and click the Remember Currently Running Applications button. Logout and back in to see if the change has worked.

[dozersmasher]

no, that made it freak out. I did some wierd commands in terminal. I'll see if I can dig up the commands.:confused:

[dozersmasher]

Got it. The commands I used were here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=88393 to reverse it:

sudo sed -i "s/xfwm4)/xfwm4|openbox)/" /usr/bin/gnome-wm
echo export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/metacity >> ~/.gnomerc