Application Menu not working +gnome 2.10

2005-12-28 Thread Chandan M. C.
Hai , On Update-desktop-database after installing Gnome Iam getting following stmt ... Applications menu is not running ... No directories in upate-desktop-database search path could be processed and updated Wht I should do to make applications menu to work (No applcications are visible)

Re: Application Menu not working +gnome 2.10

2005-12-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
Hi No directories in upate-desktop-database search path could be processed and updated This command should read the files it finds in the directory $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/ and create a file called mimeinfo.cache in that dir. So, what is the content of $XDG_DATA_DIRS? Probably /usr/share.

Re: Application Menu not working +gnome 2.10

2005-12-28 Thread Luca Dionisi
Ah, Wht I should do to make applications menu to work (No applcications are visible) ensure also you have got this file: $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/applications.menu (something like /etc/gnome/xdg/menus...) It is installed by the package gnome-menus. Luca --

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: My meanderings through the LFS archive and Google have not led me to a solution. Yelp gives me Funny characters in my stable BLFS installation. To give you a flavour of what I see, I'm pasting part of what I see (and yes, it does show Gnome 2.6, just noticed). GNOME

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-18 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:25 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: This is indeed caused by incorrect charset conversion. Details: In ISO-8859-1, the non-breaking space character is 0xA0, the  is 0xC2. In UTF-8, the entire indivisible 0xC2 0xA0 sequence means a non-breaking space. You can

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-17 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:25 +, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 21:35 +, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:23 +, Andrew Benton wrote: About This Book Chapter� 1 Using GConf Section� 1.1 Introducion to GConf

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-17 Thread Alessandro
Right, having battled with 2.10 _and_ 2.12, both crashing, I reread your email, and noticed you had to install firefox, so I reinstalled 2.10 with a Debian patch and using: --with-mozilla=firefox instead of the default mozilla, and voila, it worked. Hi, I had similar problems compiling

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-17 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 16:44 +, Alessandro wrote: Hi, I had similar problems compiling yelp 2.10.0 with this configure: ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` --localstatedir=/var/lib --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --enable-man --enable-info --with-mozilla=mozilla (Yelp

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote these words on 12/17/05 11:09 CST: I did have problems with the info/man enable switches too. May well have a bearing on the problem, I'm too busy to go back to investigate right now. I cannot say what causes those funny control-A looking characters that appeared in

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
Section 1.1 Introducion to GConf I see this whenever I look at the help in gnumeric (builds over the last few months, minimal parts from gnome-2.10). I assume it's one of those gnome says everybody will use utf8 things. Actually, it might be deciding that a binary null is ctrl

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Benton
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: Yelp gives me Funny characters in my stable BLFS installation. To give you a flavour of what I see, I'm pasting part of what I see (and yes, it does show Gnome 2.6, just noticed). GNOME 2.6 Desktop System Administration Guide Table of Contents About This Book

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:23 +, Andrew Benton wrote: About This Book Chapter� 1 Using GConf Section� 1.1 Introducion to GConf Section� 1.2 GConf Repository Section� 1.3 GConf Daemon What version of Yelp? I used to see something like this with Yelp-2.6

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 12/16/05, S. Anthony Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:23 +, Andrew Benton wrote: About This Book Chapter� 1 Using GConf Section� 1.1 Introducion to GConf Section� 1.2 GConf Repository Section� 1.3 GConf Daemon What

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Luca Dionisi wrote: Hi I think I've got the same problem, but I'm not sure. I will attach a jpeg showing the kind of symbol I see in Yelp. But the same symbol is shown also in Firefox (1.0.6) so, is gecko renderer really solving this? Luca PS: the problem is shown in the jpeg near to the

Re: Gnome 2.10, Yelp and characterset problems (I presume)

2005-12-16 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 21:35 +, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:23 +, Andrew Benton wrote: About This Book Chapter� 1 Using GConf Section� 1.1 Introducion to GConf Section� 1.2 GConf Repository Section� 1.3 GConf Daemon

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Benton
DJ Lucas wrote: Okay guys, I'm stumped. I have a day old build of current unstable. /uar/share/applications/*.desktop files exist. XDG_DATA_DIR is set (/usr/share). Is XDG_CONFIG_DIRS set to point to wherever gnome-menus has installed it's config files? --

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:47 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Okay guys, I'm stumped. I have a day old build of current unstable. /uar/share/applications/*.desktop files exist. XDG_DATA_DIR is set (/usr/share). Is XDG_CONFIG_DIRS set to point to wherever gnome-menus has

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-25 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 05/25/05 00:35 CST: Givin a guess, I like this one 'GLib-GObject-CRITICAL' of what is going on in the background, but I've no idea. (gnome-panel:27132): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `object-ref_count 0' failed (nautilus:27134):

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-25 Thread DJ Lucas
Simon Geard wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:47 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: Okay guys, I'm stumped. I have a day old build of current unstable. /uar/share/applications/*.desktop files exist. XDG_DATA_DIR is set (/usr/share). Is XDG_CONFIG_DIRS set to point to wherever

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-25 Thread DJ Lucas
this one 'GLib-GObject-CRITICAL' of what is going on in the background, but I've no idea. I wish I could help you out. However, my GNOME-2.10 installation is just as sweet as can be. I'm having an issue with FreeTTS, gnome-speech and the JDK-1.5, but minor. Other than that, 2.10 has been

Crashes in Gnome 2.10 (LFS BLFS SVN)

2005-05-24 Thread Simon Geard
Been trying a few times lately to build an updated desktop using Gnome 2.10, the latest attempt using a copy of LFS and BLFS from SVN sometime last week. On starting X, I get a number of errors, the first of which deals with the volume control applet crashing. No idea why, and no information

Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-24 Thread DJ Lucas
Okay guys, I'm stumped. I have a day old build of current unstable. /uar/share/applications/*.desktop files exist. XDG_DATA_DIR is set (/usr/share). Taking advice from a post on gnome list, rebuilt gnome-session and then gnome-panel. No change. No fam or tcp-wrappers, otherwise, all optional

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
, rebuilt gnome-session and then gnome-panel. No change. No fam or tcp-wrappers, otherwise, all optional deps have been met. Givin a guess, I like this one 'GLib-GObject-CRITICAL' of what is going on in the background, but I've no idea. I wish I could help you out. However, my GNOME-2.10

Re: Nvidia drivers for Gnome 2.10, X 6.8.2, Kernel 2.6.11.6

2005-04-17 Thread Steve Brown
Man what a journey... Appears the journey is not quite over. :( When I run an OpenGL app, I get the error about permissions on /dev/nvidiactl. Per the NVIDIA docs: It is likely that a security module for the PAM system may be changing the permissions on the NVIDIA device files. So is there

Re: Nvidia drivers for Gnome 2.10, X 6.8.2, Kernel 2.6.11.6

2005-04-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Steve Brown wrote: SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Shouldn't you set some modes for the size of your screen in the display subsection? Attached is an xorg.conf from when I used to use the Nvidia module Section

Nvidia drivers for Gnome 2.10, X 6.8.2, Kernel 2.6.11.6

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Brown
Has anyone been able to get the 7174 drivers from Nvidia installed on a BLFS system? I can install the drivers just fine, but when I try to startx, X complains that it can't load the kernel module for the card. I've read through all the documentation on the drivers and I posted on the

Gnome 2.10 panel icon problem solved

2005-03-19 Thread Dennis J Perkins
I finally found why the icons were not displayed. I had to set these variables for Gnome: XDG_DATA_DIRS For example, /usr/share XDG_CONFIG_DIRS should point to xdg directory. For example, /etc/xdg I also had to set XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/share. shared-mime-info apparently cannot find its

Re: Gnome 2.10?

2005-03-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:27 +, Andrew Benton wrote: Install gnome-menus-2.10.0 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-menus/2.10/ I already have the package installed, since it's mandatory for gnome-panel. It was build with sysconfdir=/etc/gnome, since that's what every other

Re: Gnome 2.10?

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Simon Geard wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:27 +, Andrew Benton wrote: Install gnome-menus-2.10.0 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-menus/2.10/ I already have the package installed, since it's mandatory for gnome-panel. It was build with sysconfdir=/etc/gnome, since that's what

Re: Gnome 2.10?

2005-03-15 Thread dperkins
Simon Geard wrote: Hi all... anyone else playing with Gnome 2.10 yet? I've just finished building everything, but when it came to running the it, there are two unfortunate problems, possibly related: 1. The Applications menu is missing everything except the Run Application option. 2

Re: Gnome 2.10?

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added these system variables to get the menus. There are a few icons that still aren't visible. I don't think I used --sysconfdir, however. I'll recompile and see if there is any difference. XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GARNOME/etc/xdg Setting those