Hi Mike
I was just as careless as you, installed Helix, but I dont like gdm so I opted
to keep my startx, (I am using icewm, I have an old Cyrix 6x86 166+, I can't
aford to run anything fancy, cpu-hug window-manager). Anyway, since icewm-gnome
creates his own gnome menues, I could test out most of the new apps, they all
worked fine except gtop (libgtop dependency). When I started up straight Gnome
through /etc/X11/prefdm, I got very similar result like you. The icons are all
screwed, I could add nice clock applets, without problem, but any apps I brought
up came up without the top bar I couldn't move, resize or minimize,etc. on the
desktop, non off the right, middle, left click worked. Got back to icewm and
brought up kpackage, with the options set to updated packages, and all the
gnome-helix packages has been supercided by the mdk packages so it was really
easy to reinstall the mandrake versions. The only nice thing about the Helix
was that I had finally got sound in it. (I guess I was to lazy to configure
before).
Regards
Ivan Kerekes
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you
wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone had any luck with installing Helix-Code Gnome on
Madrake 7.0? I > gave it a try, downloading the packages and then installing,
but had some > problems. A couple dependency problems and that I couldn't
correct, > libguile.so.4 and libbfd-2.91.0.24.so. When I finished the install
and > tried Gnome I had a run of problems. Most noticibly that the icons on the
> desktop were all screwed up. I no longer had harddrive icons, just folder
> short cuts, as with all the Mandrake icons. Is there anyway to keep the
> icons? I figure that they're lost when upgrading Gnome, but is there anyway
> to prevent this? I'm hoping that if I go through and solve the dependencies
> I'll be all set. I also noticed that I couldn't add any clocks to the
> panel. If I did, the panel would lock up. Again I'm wondering if the
> dependencies are causing this. I found the files that I think I needed
> afterwards when I was reinstalling Gnome from the orginal Mandrake files. I
> was just curious if anyone else had given it a try. Thanks.
>
>
> ~Mike
