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ion3 startup error log

Asked by yogeshpune

I have installed ion3 .I m using ubuntu edgy 6.10
But when i started ion3 it flashes following error as below

Ion startup error log:
>> Unable to redirect root window events for screen 0.
>> Refusing to start due to encountered errors.

please suggest me how to resolve this error

Thanks in advance .

cheers,
Yogesh

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#1

Hello,

This question was already asked for ion2 here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ion2/+question/6875

follow the advice on this page (just replace ion2 by ion3)

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yogeshpune (yogesh-tillu2003) said : 		#2

But that question is about the window manager not about this error log and how to resolve it .

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#3

look better, in the comments below yanko said he got the same error than you.

then Istvan Szekeres proposed this answer (I replaced ion2 by ion3):

you have to stop your current window manager before you start another one. Some window managers do this automatically, ion3 does not. So you have to stop metacity first, you can do it the following way:

In the menu go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions -> Current session , there select metacity and press Remove. This ensures that metacity will not be restarted automatically when it stops. Now you can kill it and start ion3:

In a terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) type the following:

kill $(pidof metacity); ion3&

This kills metacity and starts ion3.

The same way you can switch back to metacity.

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