Matthew Carson wrote: > Hi again ! > I don't use GNOME so am not that bothered - but here > goes : > > when Gnome starts up and the deskop appears, a Question window appears. > No buttons or text appear inside it, and pressing ENTER or ESC does > nothing ! > > At the same time, the main menus (application, places, desktop do > nothing when they're clicked on) > > If I right-click, close it - and choose Force Quit - the desktop > refreshes and the Question dialog returns ! > > > > Double clicking on System icon on desktop, returns this error window : > Can't display "system:///" > > any guesses ? > > THx !
Hi Matthew I had the same problem, here is what I found out: The gnome-mixer-applet is missing ! Thats why gnome-panel (or gnome-menu - don't know for sure) is showing an error-dialog, which is broken... There are several ways to fix this: 1. Install the missing applet ( sounds easy, but I didn't manage to do so, because of some missing libraries or something ^^) 2. You can move a folder with config-files to a backup directory (thats what I did): as root: mkdir ~/mixer-applet-bak && mv $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gnome-applets/mixerapplet ~/applet-bak Im not really sure where to find the mixer-applet-dir so be careful with this, it's just a guess ! You probably have to search for it. I hope this hint helps -- Johannes -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
