Well... As I looked through the list of backports at apt-get.org, and saw that there was a gnome2 port, I got a tad excited by the prospect and decided to do it (upgrade that is...WM's don't get me *that* excited). After quite a bit of stuffing around I finally managed to get all the dependencies satisfied and got both the gnome and gdm2 packages installed...However, I think something is either broken or I haven't installed all the right packages because the panel at the bottom of the screen doesn't show me a list of windows that are open, and it also doesn't have the 'desktop switcher'. I also had gnomeicu installed which was the only icq client I could find that actually docked into the panel, which it no longer does??
Also when I change virtual desktops, the 'Application' panel at the top and the window panel at the bottom are gone, the only thing I have there is a single panel at the top which has an up and a down arrow on the ends?? When I change virtual desktops,l the icons on my origianl desktop dissapear (the trash, cd-rom etc...) The pictures of gnome2 at gnome.org made me drool (what is the icq client that has the icon/applet in one of the pics?? Looks flashy), but I don't think what I have is workable :o( I knew I shouldn't have *played* If you have any hints on what I've done wrong, or conversely have any hints,tips and tricks with Gnome2, then please feel free to shoot them my way. Adam. On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:43, Matthew Davidson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 08:37, Adam Hewitt wrote: > > I don't want to upgrade my (debian/woody) system to unstable to install > > openoffice.org, and keeping my system at stable but installing the > > unstable packages requires me to remove half of the packages I have > > installed before. So I have decided to install using the tarball from > > openoffice.org. > > Have you tried just adding: > > deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ woody main > contrib > > to your sources.list? > > Personally, I'm finding the woody backports on http://www.apt-get.org a > lot less of a headache that either running unstable, or a > stable/unstable hybrid. I'm running OpenOffice, Gnome2, Mozilla 1.2.1 > on a number of different woody PCs with no problems so far. > > Matthew. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
