I've now built my desktop using gnome3 versions of (released) gnome 2 packages where applicable. As before, I'm not interested in the gnome desktop itself, only enough to support the few applications I use. A few things are a little bit nicer (e.g. epiphany now uses a readable size of text), many others are not significantly different.
Two things, however, are annoying enough to make me ask if anyone has any workarounds ? Versions generally are as in Wayne's snapshot at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~wblaszcz/blfs-book-xsl/ 1. 'help' no longer works in applications. I had this in the past, and the solution was to add gvfs. Searching google only finds that recommendation. But, I've *got* gvfs (1.10.1). Looking at the build log for an older version on my previous system, GConf support has been entirely removed [ I guess this used to be the important part with gnome2/GConf2 ] and FTP/HTTP/WebDAV support is now enabled. Curiously, if I open yelp directly, I can get to all of the installed application help, but 'Help -> Contents' gives me Could not display help: Operation not supported 2. 'totem' now uses clutter libraries, and if started from a terminal it lets you know it (dies immediately): ken@ac30 ~ $totem (totem:8077): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to find suitable fbconfig for the GLX context: Unable to find fbconfig with rgba visual GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications. (totem:8077): Clutter-WARNING **: Unable to create a new stage: the glx backend does not support multiple stages. (totem:8077): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (totem:8077): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (totem:8077): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (totem:8077): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_stage_set_color: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_STAGE (stage)' failed Segmentation fault This is on my AGP radeon7500 (R100) with working (but slow) glx. Arch linux appears to have chapter and verse on this, with a recommendation to export CLUTTER_DISABLE_RGB_VISUAL=1 - that worked a couple of times (enough for me to discover that while the sound was ok, the video only changed about once every 5 seconds, like a slideshow), but then stopped helping. There is a gnome bug, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660930 but the patch in that doesn't help. Also, trying to open a directory in an nfs mount to get a list of movies crashes totem. And finally, it opens fullscreen. There is a control in the bottom right corner to apparently, drag the window to a smaller size, but if I try to drag that all mouse events are lost until I kill the X session. So, anyone got totem-3 working ? -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
