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Barton Chittenden
Asked: 2012-03-23 05:03:44 +0800 CST

Installed xmonad, broke gnome desktop

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I installed xmonad a couple of nights ago. Xmonad includes the files that you would need select it from GDM (e.g. /usr/share/applications/xmonad.desktop and /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop).

I tried starting xmonad via gdm and locked up X... (eventually even the virtual terminals locked up and I had to reboot the machine). The next time I started the machine I selected gnome instead of xmonad, it launched gnome-session, but tried to run xmonad instead of metacity as the desktop environment (this was entirely unusable). I moved the xmonad.desktop files in both /usr/share/applications and /usr/share/xsessions, now I have no desktop environment (which is slightly usable). How do I re-enable metacity?

gnome metacity xmonad

1 Answers

  1. In a terminal,

    sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

    will probably do the trick. Alternatively you can

    sudo apt-get purge xmonad

    and that should do the trick also.

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