On 6/5/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> when I start x there is a short panel at the top with no buttons at all.
> Cursor movements are twice as fast as usual and acceleration it too
> high. A window pops up saying: can't load default theme, either metacity
> not installed or gconf misconfigured.
> metacity is installed.
> after adding menus to the panel and logging out and in again the empty
> panel is shown again and the warning pops up again.

How are you starting gnome? gdm? startx? Need some more details about
the startup. This sounds like gnome-settings-daemon isn't running.
Normally, this should be started by gnome-session. Or possibly that
dbus isn't running. I'd highly recommend dbus because there are a lot
of gnome-2.18 apps that want to use it.

Assuming you have dbus (and the system bus is running), this should
work from startx:

dbus-launch gnome-session

I'd suggest you start the debugging there. Maybe you can see some
output on the console.

--
Dan
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