[Wylug-help] ubuntu window problem

[James Holden]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:06:33PM +0100, linux at sh2515.plus.com wrote:
> did that and came up:
> 
> root at scott-desktop:~# metacity --replace
> Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0';
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the window manager.
> root at scott-desktop:~#
> 
> i swear i didn't do anything like that.
> 

Hi Scott,

You'd have to do that as your normal user, not root.

Regards,

James

> 
> > Try doing a 'metacity --replace' which will override whichever window
> > manager is currently being used (sounds like beryl) with metacity.
> >
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Holden [mailto:james at jamesholden.net]
> > Sent: 23 July 2007 11:12
> > To: scott
> > Cc: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] ubuntu window problem
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 08:34:01PM +0100, scott wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have installed ubuntu 7.04, because I am crap with linux and need
> >> something simple.  After the updates I now have no windows (as in the
> >> surround for an application i.e minimize maximize and shut down
> > button) I
> >> have installed beryl so I can move the applications around and now the
> >> windows application is saying that beryl hasn't configured a windows
> >> manager.  Every time I type something in to a search engine to find a
> >> solution M$ windows pops up not a linux windows manager problem.
> > Could
> >> anyone help?
> >
> >
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