A few months ago Rhandir Phagura posted a problem with gnome-control-center not showing anything but a blank window. Now I'm getting the same problem.
Rhandir said that he was able to get g-c-c working when he exported the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, XDG_DATA_DIRS, and XDG_HOME, and ran it from an xterm window instead of from the desktop icon. I did all that, and still there's just a blank window with the title "Desktop Preferences". Interestingly, this was reported as a bug in an early release of gnome-control-center-2.10, but I'm on 2.10.2. Like Rhandir, I'm not running the full gnome desktop; I installed the libraries and core system and only use them for applications that need them like Evolution. My window manager is blackbox. gcc is 3.4.4 and the kernel is 2.6.12-2. But the same problem occurs when I modify ~.xinitrc to launch gnome-session-manager rather than blackbox. Has anyone else encountered this and found a solution? Or can y'all suggest a way I can track down the cause of the problem? I'm barely literate in c and I don't know how to use a debugger, but I'll learn if it will help. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
