I'm having two annoying problems with my GNOME environment, and both seem to be to do with GConf settings. The first is that most apps aren't obeying my UI settings (detachable toolbars off, icon settings = icons only). About all I've found that obeys them is GEdit (and it obeys them immediately as I change them), everything else (Epiphany, Evince, AbiWord, GTerm, Nautilus) simply leaves it on the default (except ofcourse where I can override things specifically in that app). The thing that realy gets me with this is that Gedit behaves properly - I would have expected it to work or fail for *everything* (and the failing apps behave properly in other things - for example, Epiphany respects my proxy settings equally as well as liferea).
The other problem is to do with my mouse settings. The cursor theme is obeyed properly only after I run gnome-mouse-properties - rebooting (or possibly just restarting X, I haven't tested) resets it to the X default, but GNOME remembers what I set it to (and sets it to that as soon as I run gnome-mouse-properties). Also my sensitivity and accelleration settings don't seem to be honoured - moving my cursor is painful as soon as gnome-mouse-properties is run, and doesn't change any as I change the sliders. What would cause these problems? My best attempt to fix it sofar has been to recompile my GNOME tree from scratch (having removed /etc/gconf ). That didn't work any better than I expected it to. Also, is there a better way than the control center dialogue to set my cursor theme? (eg, is there an easy way to do it modifying xorg.conf?). -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
