On Nov 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: I removed much of GNOME, and reinstalled it from the compiled .deb files thinking that possibly I have some configuration problem besides .gconfd and .gnome2, but the behavior is still the same. None of the applets: WindowList, WindowSelector, or Workspace Switcher will load.
I also tried the workaround for the keymap again, because my keymap was bad again (because of the reinstall?). The regular workaround would not work. When I executed the gnome-settings-daemon instead of getting the pop-up menu to choose Xmodmap, it reads the xrdb file after telling me xscreensaver was not compiled with locking and then hangs. I don't know why I don't get the original behavior that i got the first time I set Xmodmap. Finally, out of frustration I used Martin's dirty workaround and just trashed the /sw/share/xmodmap directory. Now I don't have the keymap problem. However, I notice now that I can not get any help or other Gnome documentation to load. In fact, I don't see Gnome documentation of any kind on the pop-up menus in the Gnome Menu app. When I try to launch a help file I get the following message: There was an error displaying help: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location. Does anyone have any idea what has been broken with help? I could just rebuild Gnome if I have to. It mostly worked except for the Window applets and the keymap originally. I like to avoid rebuilding the whole thing if I can, because I believe most of the installation is probably fine. Gary K Olson > On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote: > >> >> On Nov 17, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: >> >>> Using exec gnome-panel along with exec Metacity took care of the >>> rootless problem. Using Martin Costabel's workaround that Stan sent >>> me, I fixed my keymap problem. When I started up GNOME, I got the >>> following messages: >>> >>> The panel encountered a problem while loading >>> "OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet". Do you want to delete the applet >>> from >>> your configuration? >>> >>> I got similar windows and messages for Window Selector and Workspace >>> Switcher. Needless to say, these applets did not load. I said I >>> did >>> not want to delete these apps from configuration, so the warning >> >> I agreed to remove them, and had no problems with configuration >> other than the fact that new windows attach themselves to the >> position 0,0 on the screeen. I can activate Spaces, and while the >> sectors are visible (I have four set up), move the window to >> another position. This is a new behavior since the last update. >> >>> windows would close. I went to add these apps to one of the panels, >>> and I was initially able to add the window list app. But then >>> when I >>> tried to add regular apps to a launcher on a panel, gnome froze, >>> and I >>> was forced to close down the X11 system from Apple's X11 menubar. >>> Now, when I load GNOME, I still get the same loading failure >>> messages >>> for the above applets, and I can not load >>> WindowListApplet separately. Also, I can not logout my user from >>> GNOME like I could before it froze up. >> >> This is also a new behavior since the last updates. The logout >> options have changed to include both logout and shut down; neither >> one have any noticeable effect. I have simply quit X11. >> >> >>> Gary K Olson >>> >>>> On Nov 17, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I think I sent this message to wrong address (sorry), so I am >>>>>> sending >>>>>> it again. >>>>>> I compiled bundle-gnome on my ibook which went well. However, >>>>>> the >>>>>> generic keymap does not map to the ibook keyboard. Am I missing >>>>>> some >>>>>> package that needs to be built that provides the proper keymap? >>>>>> Also, >>>>>> is it possible to go rootless mode in Gnome? I looked for a >>>>>> way to >>>>>> turn off the desktop or the desktop icons like is done in KDE >>>>>> to get >>>>>> into rootless mode, but I did not find any command to do this. >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> for the help. My kit is: >>>>>> Package manager version: 0.28.6 >>>>>> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Mon Nov 17 12:10:38 2008, >>>>>> 10.5, >>>>>> powerpc >>>>>> OSX 10.5.5 >>>>>> Xtools 3.1 >>>>>> powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build >>>>>> 5488) >>>>>> >>>>>> Gary K Olson >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> To run rootless, try "gnome-panel" instead of gnome-session. >>>>> (this >>>>> is mentioned in "fink info bundle-gnome"). >>>> >>> >> >> >> Stan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
