On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: > 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 >> >> >
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