[BRLTTY] [OT] GUI applications not working when on text console

[Chevelle]

On 4/17/2023 11:19 PM, Nicole Fontenot (Nicki) wrote:
> I am interested in how you setup metacity. I am not on Debian, but am largely familiar with it.
> Hello,

I think I found an article that shows how to do it, but it is using a 
procedure like this.

as root or using 'sudo' enter:
apt install metacity

 From a shell prompt as my ID
gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components windowmanager metacity

Then I rebooted.
It does work and seems to get rid of hung processes, although it may be 
slightly less convenient than Marco because some of the key bindings 
like alt-control-t to open the terminal aren't mapped by default.
You could fall back to Marco using the  'gsettings' command and changing 
the last argument.

>> On Apr 10, 2023, at 9:51 PM, Chevelle <cstrobel at crosslink.net> wrote:
>>
>> I set up Debian to use Metacity, which is not difficult.  If you want the instructions, let me know, but it isn't a good long term solution.