[Techtalk] gnome, nautilus, sawfish & metacity???

[Erin Raasch]

I've been running Gnome2 alongside Gnome1.4 on Suse 8.0, and  I've been 
jumping back and forth between them quite a bit, trying to understand how 
things work.  I've finally gotten more comfortable with Gnome2, now that I've 
gotten it customized to my liking, but there are some things in Gnome1.4 that 
I'm having problems with.  

The first really isn't a problem, more of a curiosity - if I have sawfish set 
as the windowmanager in 1.4 and metacity in 2, the gnome1.4 control center 
reports metacity as the active windowmanager.  This is true whether I'm in 
gnome2 with metacity running, or whether I'm gnome1.4 and sawfish is running.  
I can (from the control center) switch to sawfish, which then changes gnome2 
to sawfish, but I cannot change back to metacity from the control center - it 
always times out.  Not a problem since I've learned how to use the command 
line to do this, but interesting.

The second issue is the actual problem.  Twice now, when I've logged into 
gnome1.4, nautilus has not started, and I haven't been able to start it 
either from the (SuSE) menu or from the run command.  The first time this 
happened, it just started up after about the fifth time I logged back in to 
gnome1.4.  Now it has stopped running again, but I haven't been able to get 
it going.  It's running fine in gnome2, BTW.  Has anyone experienced this, or 
does someone have a clue as to why it happens or what I can do to get it 
running again?  

Thanks,

Erin Raasch