The effect of my problem is that the application starts, but you cannot do anything with it except close it.
You can go directly to some pages, with --show-page=effects for example, but then it only presents you with something to click on and then blank windows from there on. You cannot actually confirm the changes. So here goes.. System: Linux darkstar 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Gutsy, upgraded from Feisty. KDE is installed as well, but only as a 'see what it looks like' option. Not the main session. Whenever I start the app I get the following output: :~$ gnome-appearance-properties /bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc' (gnome-appearance-properties:11455): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_map: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget)' failed (gnome-appearance-properties:11455): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_map: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget)' failed :~$ sudo apt-get install esd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package esd :~$ ls -l /etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc -rw-r----- 1 root root 642 2007-09-01 11:28 /etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc I ran this manually: gnome-appearance-properties --show-page=effects The windows appeared, with the right tab selected. However I could not click on anything but down arrow seemed to have selected something, which brought up a blank window, to which I pressed Enter. It did change the effects. However, subsequent tries with the same command results in: "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'. Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager." Below is the output from the first session: ~:$ gnome-appearance-properties --show-page=effects /bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found (gnome-appearance-properties:11602): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_map: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget)' failed (gnome-appearance-properties:11602): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_map: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget)' failed No nvidia hardware available Checking for Xgl: not present. Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:29c2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present. Trying again with indirect rendering: Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. Checking for non power of two support: present. Checking for Composite extension: present. Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (204: Passed. Checking for nVidia: not present. Checking for FBConfig: present. Checking for Xgl: not present. Starting gtk-window-decorator /usr/bin/compiz.real (dbus) - Error: dbus_bus_get error: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. /usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'dbus' /usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo gnome-appearance-properties --show-page=effects /bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found (gnome-appearance-properties:11719): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_map: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget)' failed (gnome-appearance-properties:11719): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_map: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget)' failed This is driving me nuts at the moment... -- Gnome-appearance-properties freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145827 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
