[Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

[Jussi Lahtinen]

If you use BackBox, uninstall metacity and try to delete ~/.cache/sessions.
Assuming you still have xfwm4 installed.


Jussi

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>
wrote:

> John, not to offense, but your messages are mess. What is your distro,
> Ubuntu or BackBox? Why metacity?? Neither of them uses metacity.
>
>
> Jussi
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:51 PM, John Leake <jleake at ...3375...> wrote:
>
>> >>> Some of the symptoms
>> >>> --------------------
>> >>>
>> >>> (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up.
>> >>> (2) No Window decoration.
>> >>> (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered.
>> >>> (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be.
>> >>> (5) Thunderbird text menus not working.
>> >> (6) Firefox text menus not working
>> >> (7) Right Click context menus not working
>> >> (8) Desktop Panels not on top
>> >>
>> >> What I have tried without success
>> >> ---------------------------------
>> >> sudo apt-get purge gambas
>> >> sudo apt-get autoremove
>> >> BackBox restore desktop
>> >> Lots of reboots because the windows eventually fill the whole screen
>> and
>> >> the top one is the last program launched.
>> > Removing all the gambas repos and updating and rebooting
>> > rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Some of my ideas
>> >> ----------------
>> >> Fucked up (sorry incompatible) graphics libraries.
>> >>
>> What seemed to help
>> -------------------
>> sudo apt-get install metacity - this gave be back window focus and bring
>> to top as well as window decoration (although ugly/basic) and context
>> menus, keyboard short cuts, and working firefox/thunderbird text menus.
>>
>> Can anyone explain what might have happened ?
>>
>>
>>
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