On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 20:44:33 +0000, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Simply commanding "metacity" at a root prompt fixed the problems, > sure enough! But I had failed to put an ampersand after the command, and > knew no other way to get my prompt back was ^C. That not only stopped > metacity, but gave me other troubles enough to force me to log out and > back in. Use ^Z to suspend the process. You can start it in the background using bg. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines