On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:44:33 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: [....] > Simply commanding "metacity" at a root prompt fixed the problems, [....] once I added the ampersand: "metacity &" -- at least temporarily. But this morning there are weird messages: [root@Hbsk2 ~]# metacity & [1] 8147 [root@Hbsk2 ~]# Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x3c00003 (Pan: gmane); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e00003 (Welcome to). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e000f6 (Add Bookma). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e00120 (Bookmark P). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e00152 (Add Bookma). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e0017e (Add Bookma). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e00186 (Add Bookma). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e001b4 (Add Bookma). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x4e00002 specified for 0x4e001de (Bookmark P). Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4a00023 (Video -- W); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4a00023 (Video -- W); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x1800003 (btth@Hbsk2); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. What gives?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- 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