Mint 8: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05795
Smooth as silk. Everything works! Try it and see. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:06:18 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:53:07 -0800 > > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > > Never mind - Google told me the answer. The command is "yum -y > groupinstall xfce4." > > > > So here I am in an Xfce desktop. Wonder what distro I should try next. > > I am here to report that I have been bitten for the fourth time by > Gnome 2.8.0. > > I reformatted and installed OpenSuse 11.2, which uses Gnome 2.8.0. I > spent yesterday installing and configuring stuff, rebooting > occasionally. This morning I rebooted and when X came up there was no > metacity. But this time the Gnome panel did appear. I started metacity > from the terminal, so I am functional. OpenSuse installs IceWM as well > as the default metacity, so I can try that, or install Xfce4. > > I spent some time yesterday searching on the OpenSuse forums for > answers to other issues and I stumbled across this thread: > > http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/427153-desktop-wont-load.html > > I also found quite a few people reporting similar problems on the > Ubuntu forums, all with Karmic. Karmic uses Gnome 2.8.0. > > I'm going to search the Gnome bugtracker next, which I should have done > earlier. If I don't find a fix (which I think is unlikely), I'm > probably going to reformat and install OpenSuse 11.1. For sure I am not > touching any distro-version that uses Gnome 2.8.0. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
