Sawfish problems

[[Bean]]

I was playing around with the shortcut keys in Gnome, trying to figure out how I could make a shortcut to kill a window usring alt-f4 (yeah, I know, ex-winblows junkie). I grabbed the key sequence and assigned it to "Quit". I tried it once, and instead it closed my windows manager! Now when I try to login, Gnome gives me a msg about not using a Gnome compliant windows manager (duh...not even using one: the windows have no boarders). I tried restarting Sawfish, but the operation times out. How can I fix this?

I'm running Mandrake 8. Right now I'm getting by in twm, but it blows. :)

[posterboy]

Hmmm, well, here's some things to try, maybe. Get up the Control Center (gnomecc) and theres a button to ADD a window mgr. Maybe you can do that, or at least see what WM's it thinks it can see. Then, if no help from this. rename the .gnome directories to something else. Gnome will restart itself in factory defaults, and that may do it. After that, you can pull your "stuff" back out of the renamed directory. One more: Try estabilshing another user, and set HIM up with gnome and sawfish. If that works, pull his directories into your home dir. I have done that one several times, always successful so far. MUST chown all that stuff to the current user, of course. All that setup preferences is in plain old ascii, in ~/.gnome. Might even FIND where the key bindings went awry. HTH, Ray

[[Bean]]

Thanks, I'll give that a wing. :-)

[[Bean]]

Yup, it worked! Thanks a load!!