On Wed, 22 May 2002, Rob Randall wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure when this happened, but whenever I start X, Gnome acts > like it is starting using Sawfish, but stops with the background color of > the desktop along with the little tip Gnome tip window that one can toggle > on and off. That is all that appears. No icons, no menu bars, nothing. > Clicking on the screen with the mouse has no effect. I have removed Fink and > Xfree86 and reinstalled numerous times and it always is the same. I have > been able to remove Sawfish and just use Enlightenment and it will start up. > When I do start X with Enlightenment and I switch to Sawfish or any other > WM, XDarwin will quit if I try and keep the new WM. > > When I remove Fink, I type "sudo rm -rf /sw" and to remove Xfree 86 I type > "sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11 /Applications/XDarwin.app" as on the Fink > web site. It does remove them but there must be somewhere else that some > files live because when Sawfish attempts to start, the desktop background > that comes up is not the default color for Sawfish. It is one that I saved > the last time I got the Gnome/Sawfish thing working. When I reinstall > XFree86 instead of an "Install" button, it says "Update". Your background setting lives in your home directory. You will have a directory called .gnome . If you delete this, all the settings should go back to their defaults: this may give you your GNOME stuff back. You get the "Update" button on your binary X11 installer instead of "Install" because you've done the install once, so there's a package for the installer in /Library/Receipts -- don't worry about it. > > I have the same setup and settings on my Powerbook and everything works just > fine; .xinitrc file included. > It may be a bad saved session. Once again, deleting .gnome frequently helps. > I used the "dselect" command to install Gnome and others, not Fink (after I > had installed Fink). Someone else had mentioned to me at an earlier time > that "dselect" was easier to use because everything was already compiled > because Fink kept squawking that it couldn't find a compiler. That's right. A compiler isn't part of the stock OSX installation. > > If anyone can make any sense of my ramblings and would care to comment, > please do. > > Rob > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
