Clicking on System->Preferences->Appearance" results in a few seconds of the hourglass and then nothing on a headless b124 machine with an xdmcp session running from Fedora C10. The same happens on an xdmcp session from an x86 running b111b.
/var/adm/messages has this to say Oct 11 10:30:53 host5 gnome-session[2527]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name The background is a dreadful sort of pale khaki and it would be really nice to change it :-) Thanks -- Frank