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This blog brings together the ideals of Test Driven Development and other Software Quality practices with the reality of smalltime commercial software development. I am trying to apply Just Enough of Waterfall, Agile, Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development (TDD) etc to benefit from their returns, while avoiding the significant costs of following them to the letter. I am working on web applications with Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Gutsy Gibbon for Adults

I'm building a clean VM of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" and thought I'd remove the fancy Compiz window manager. I then discovered the previous version was running one called MetaCity and looked into reenabling that. Uninstalling Compiz isn't enough - you have to do the following to enable MetaCity, otherwise you get some weird effects.

So, from http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3770282 :

As root (sudo gedit), modify: /usr/share/gnome/default.session and change

0,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --sm-client-id default0


TO:

0,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --default-wm /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id default0

posted by Magpie | 11:34 am

2 Comments:

Blogger moonlite1 said...

That's overkill. Just set desktop effects to "None" under System => Preferences => Appearance and ubuntu will run metacity instead.

12:01 am  
Blogger Magpie said...

I'm too much of a Linux newbie to doubt you, but why does uninstalling Compiz while "Desktop Effects: None" is selected leave me without any Window Manager ? (it should leave me with MetaCity which is still installed)

11:10 am  

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