AG:
These are some of the issues:
1. Windows manager is unknown and no configuration tool is registered
2. windows are launched at the top of the screen I cannot drag
these elsewhere
3. clicking a mouse on a window does not bring it to the fore
4. there are no longer multiple workspaces
On 10/06/11 05:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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root@debian:/home/spinymouse# su --login
Why is #(root) running su??
Cheers
--
Tuttle? His name's Buttle.
There must be some mistake.
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:17 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/06/11 05:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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root@debian:/home/spinymouse# su --login
Why is #(root) running su??
On 10/06/11 18:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:17 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/06/11 05:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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root@debian:/home/spinymouse# su --login
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 19:25 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/06/11 18:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I'm guessing from the gedit that you're running Gnome?
Have you tried gksu and gksudo
eg:-
#gksu gedit (will work if installed)
$ gksu gedit
(gedit:13772): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
Accustom yourself to run a login shell when launching GUI based
applications (i.e., su - instead su) ;-)
Thank you :)
that's better, still some GTK warnings
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:03 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
Accustom yourself to run a login shell when launching GUI based
applications (i.e., su - instead su) ;-)
Thank you :)
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some of the issues:
1. Windows manager is unknown and no configuration tool is registered
On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some of the issues:
1. Windows manager is unknown and no
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some of the issues:
1. Windows manager
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some of the issues:
1. Windows manager
On 09/06/11 19:00, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some of the
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
These are some
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
PS, not an issue, but it might has to do with those issues:
spinymouse@debian:~$ gedit
spinymouse@debian:~$ su
Password:
root@debian:/home/spinymouse# gedit
(gedit:7637): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session
On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
[snip]
(gedit:7637): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename
'/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common
Why in ${DEITY}'s name are you logged in as root??
--
Neither the
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote:
[snip]
This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by
a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste
of time when I have work to do!
It doesn't. But your existing session might have scribbled over
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
borked and
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
PS, not an issue, but it might has to do with those issues:
spinymouse@debian:~$ gedit
spinymouse@debian:~$ su
Password:
root@debian:/home/spinymouse# gedit
(gedit:7637):
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:58 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
[snip]
(gedit:7637): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename
'/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common
Why in
On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote:
[snip]
This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by
a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste
of time when I have work to do!
It doesn't. But your existing
On 09/06/11 20:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
Gnome DE to find that all of
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 20:54 +0100, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 20:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
Hi all
Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7
On 06/09/2011 02:52 PM, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote:
[snip]
This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by
a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste
of time when I have work to do!
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