Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:02:40PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: I know what you mean, but in the end this is absolutlely free support from people who do have other lives. I have learned that the quality and accuracy of the question I ask is incredibly important. Exact error messages are very

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 11. 05. 2009 16:21:05 je Klistvud napisal(a): Dne, 11. 05. 2009 11:04:47 je Andrew G napisal(a): 1) When I right-click on an image file in my home directory in order to access the properties of that image to add notes to it, the whole set of desktop icons, including my home

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:21 +0200, Klistvud wrote: As opposed to KDE, Conky is a full-blown PITA to configure in Gnome. Funny, I just installed conky and it works fine (using GNOME/Metacity on Debian Lenny). I haven't rebooted or logged out of GNOME since I did it, so maybe the problems you

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-13 Thread AG
Michael M. Moore wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:21 +0200, Klistvud wrote: As opposed to KDE, Conky is a full-blown PITA to configure in Gnome. Funny, I just installed conky and it works fine (using GNOME/Metacity on Debian Lenny). I haven't rebooted or logged out of GNOME since I

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:56 +0100, AG wrote: The commented line is one of the suggestions Gav made yesterday, so I tried it, but realised I didn't like the placement. But otherwise I'd say that there is a pretty decent consistency between our respective Conky(ies?) files. You might look

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-12 Thread Gav Ford
Conky is one issue and a rather minor one at that and rates as an annoyance. It may just be that Gnome and Conky don't play nicely together, because trying it out on Fluxbox, Xfce4 and even KDE all is fine. Gnome however, well that is something I will continue to hack away at. I have

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-12 Thread Andrew G
Gav Ford wrote: I have conky working fine with Lenny and Gnome, I needed to add the following to the .conkyrc: own_window yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar own_window_transparent yes double_buffer yes And comment out: #own_window_type root Which worked fine

Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew G
Hi list Of late, Gnome has been behaving in unpredictable ways. I am using testing/Squeeze and sometime over the last few weeks, a number of changes have taken place that I am unable to reverse, and I would really appreciate a bit of help from this list if that is not too much trouble. In no

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47 +0100, Andrew G (computing.acco...@googlemail.com) wrote: Hi list [Snip tale of woe] I've asked this list for help before on a couple of these issues and the response has been - with the exception of one kind soul who did respond - crap. I don't know if

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 11/5/09, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote: From: Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com Subject: Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 11 May, 2009, 2:17 PM On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47 +0100, Andrew G

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 11. 05. 2009 11:04:47 je Andrew G napisal(a): 1) When I right-click on an image file in my home directory in order to access the properties of that image to add notes to it, the whole set of desktop icons, including my home directory and Conky all disappear for a few seconds and

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew G
Thanks to those folk who responded. Much appreciated I was beginning to get paranoid ... :-) Conky is one issue and a rather minor one at that and rates as an annoyance. It may just be that Gnome and Conky don't play nicely together, because trying it out on Fluxbox, Xfce4 and even KDE all is

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread JoeHill
Andrew G wrote: Hi list Of late, Gnome has been behaving in unpredictable ways. I am using testing/Squeeze and sometime over the last few weeks, a number of changes have taken place that I am unable to reverse, and I would really appreciate a bit of help from this list if that is not too

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47AM +0100, Andrew G wrote: 4) Finally, icons from removable media are not being placed on my desktop like they used to. This may well have something to do with UDEV, but beyond that I haven't a clue on what's up nor - even more critically - what I can do about