[PLUG] It just happened again

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:07:17 -0800
Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> dijo:

>On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Yup. Rebooted. Logged in. No metacity.
>
>I don't remember if anyone asked this before -- what happens if you
>run metacity from a terminal in X when you don't have a window
>manager?
>
>You *may* need to find the metacity binary and specify the full path,
>but I doubt it:  If you get something like "command not found", then
>you need to find the binary.  ('locate metacity | grep bin' should
>help to find it).

I can start metacity just fine from a Gnome terminal, as long as X is running.
In this case gnome-panel was still running, so all I had to do was click on
Applications > System > Terminal, then type the command "metacity" and hit
Enter. That is how I am functioning at the moment.

In the past I lost both metacity and gnome-panel. 

Considering that this has happened after installing five different distros, I
really need to figure out what is causing it. Or at least, how to repair it.
Reinstalling from scratch after two days of configurations and installing
applications is getting old.