[gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!
I hope this goes through. In the recent past, thread-beginning posts sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get lost in the mail. Replies go through fine, but original threads don't. If you see this, this one didn't get lost. I've been gone for a couple of weeks (from August 5 to August 16), so when I got back there were a lot of packages that needed to be upgraded. I completed the upgrades on my PC a couple of days ago. I rebooted into Windows XP today and when I came back and logged into GNOME, no programs had title bars, and I couldn't Alt+TAB between them. How can I fix this? How can I even find out exactly what package is causing the problem? When I log in, I get a message - something about accessibility, but everything else seems normal except for the lack of title bars. I'm typing this is KDE, but I prefer GNOME. Please help! I use gnome-2-18-2-r1: camille ~ # emerge -pv gnome These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.18.2-r1 USE=cdr cups dvdr -accessibility -ldap -mono 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB My emerge info is: camille ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686) = System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:30:01 + distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo; LINGUAS=en fr es MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage-packages/camille PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=--human-readable PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-* PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X alsa apache2 apm arts asterisk audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bind-mysql bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 candy cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dba dbus divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode examples expat f77 ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads ivtv jack jack-tempfs java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos lib libclamav libg++ libwww lirc mad midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mode-owner motif mp3 mpeg mpm-leader mudflap mysql mythtv nas nautilus ncurses new-login nls nntp nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png portaudio ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection ruby samba sasl sdl seamonkey session slp snmp spell spl sql ssl svga syslog tcl tcltk tcpd threads tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xml2 xorg xv zaptel zlib ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=en fr es USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!': I logged into GNOME, no programs had title bars, and I couldn't Alt+TAB between them. How can I fix this? How can I even find out exactly what package is causing the problem? When I log in, I get a message - something about accessibility, but everything else seems normal except for the lack of title bars. This is usually caused by a missing/crashing/failing window manager. The default window manager in Gnome is metacity (IIRC). If you use compiz/beryl/compiz-fusion, this may be separated into a different program called the window decorator. The perferred window decorator for Gnome is heliodor (IIRC). Since your KDE window manager seems to work, you should be able to start gnome and then start: kwin --replace on the same display to get a more functional Gnome desktop. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!
On 8/19/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this goes through. In the recent past, thread-beginning posts sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get lost in the mail. Replies go through fine, but original threads don't. If you see this, this one didn't get lost. I've been gone for a couple of weeks (from August 5 to August 16), so when I got back there were a lot of packages that needed to be upgraded. I completed the upgrades on my PC a couple of days ago. I rebooted into Windows XP today and when I came back and logged into GNOME, no programs had title bars, and I couldn't Alt+TAB between them. How can I fix this? Sounds like the window manager isn't running - whenever you can't do normal things with open windows, then you have window manager problems. The standard window manager for gnome is nautilus - I'd recommend opening a terminal window and just typing: nautilus and see what error messages you get. If you get your normal window decorations back (title bar, etc.), then for some reason gnome isn't starting nautilus by default - check your session/program autostart settings. If you do get errors, then either just re-emerge nautilus, or run a revdep-rebuild, and it will probably catch the issue. The reason you didn't see the issue post-upgrade until after you had rebooted, is that the previous (working) version of nautilus had been resident in memory, but the on-disk copy is broken somehow - probably a library dependency got updated. HTH- James How can I even find out exactly what package is causing the problem? When I log in, I get a message - something about accessibility, but everything else seems normal except for the lack of title bars. I'm typing this is KDE, but I prefer GNOME. Please help! I use gnome-2-18-2-r1: camille ~ # emerge -pv gnome These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.18.2-r1 USE=cdr cups dvdr -accessibility -ldap -mono 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB My emerge info is: camille ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686) = System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:30:01 + distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo; LINGUAS=en fr es MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage-packages/camille PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=--human-readable PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-* PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X alsa apache2 apm arts asterisk audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bind-mysql bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 candy cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dba dbus divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode examples expat f77 ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads ivtv jack jack-tempfs java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos lib libclamav libg++ libwww lirc mad midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mode-owner motif mp3 mpeg mpm-leader mudflap mysql mythtv nas nautilus ncurses new-login nls nntp nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png portaudio ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection ruby samba sasl sdl seamonkey session slp snmp spell spl sql ssl svga syslog tcl
Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!
On 8/19/07, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/19/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this goes through. In the recent past, thread-beginning posts sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get lost in the mail. Replies go through fine, but original threads don't. If you see this, this one didn't get lost. I've been gone for a couple of weeks (from August 5 to August 16), so when I got back there were a lot of packages that needed to be upgraded. I completed the upgrades on my PC a couple of days ago. I rebooted into Windows XP today and when I came back and logged into GNOME, no programs had title bars, and I couldn't Alt+TAB between them. How can I fix this? Sounds like the window manager isn't running - whenever you can't do normal things with open windows, then you have window manager problems. The standard window manager for gnome is nautilus - I'd Whoops - make that metacity - guess I shouldn't be posting when I'm sick in bed... Sorry. :) s/nautilus/metacity/g recommend opening a terminal window and just typing: nautilus and see what error messages you get. If you get your normal window decorations back (title bar, etc.), then for some reason gnome isn't starting nautilus by default - check your session/program autostart settings. If you do get errors, then either just re-emerge nautilus, or run a revdep-rebuild, and it will probably catch the issue. The reason you didn't see the issue post-upgrade until after you had rebooted, is that the previous (working) version of nautilus had been resident in memory, but the on-disk copy is broken somehow - probably a library dependency got updated. HTH- James How can I even find out exactly what package is causing the problem? When I log in, I get a message - something about accessibility, but everything else seems normal except for the lack of title bars. I'm typing this is KDE, but I prefer GNOME. Please help! I use gnome-2-18-2-r1: camille ~ # emerge -pv gnome These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.18.2-r1 USE=cdr cups dvdr -accessibility -ldap -mono 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB My emerge info is: camille ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686) = System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:30:01 + distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo; LINGUAS=en fr es MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage-packages/camille PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=--human-readable PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-* PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X alsa apache2 apm arts asterisk audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bind-mysql bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 candy cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dba dbus divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode examples expat f77 ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads ivtv jack jack-tempfs java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos lib libclamav libg++ libwww lirc mad midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mode-owner motif mp3 mpeg mpm-leader mudflap mysql mythtv nas
Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome! [SOLVED]
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 18:41 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: This is usually caused by a missing/crashing/failing window manager. The default window manager in Gnome is metacity (IIRC). If you use compiz/beryl/compiz-fusion, this may be separated into a different program called the window decorator. The perferred window decorator for Gnome is heliodor (IIRC). Since your KDE window manager seems to work, you should be able to start gnome and then start: kwin --replace on the same display to get a more functional Gnome desktop. Yeah, metacity went bad. I reran it and my title bars came back. Thank you! -Michael Sullivan- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
