Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself. Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on empty space did not work. I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences? One other question. The Applications launcher on GNOME does not contain the LOG OUT feature. I know the command "shutdown", but I can not find a command to Log Out. Is there one? What is it? Ken Jones
What about .gnome or .gnome2 directories? There's always restarting the X server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (that's backspace, not delete). Not to start a flame war, but my personal recommendation would be to switch to KDE, but I'm rather biased. KDE 3.5 is really good. :) On 12/12/05, Ken Jones <jonesj@ziplink.net> wrote:
Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself.
Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on empty space did not work.
I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences?
One other question. The Applications launcher on GNOME does not contain the LOG OUT feature. I know the command "shutdown", but I can not find a command to Log Out. Is there one? What is it?
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==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] Success, almost, with GNOME; Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared@gmail.com> adds: greenwaldjared> What about .gnome or .gnome2 directories? There's always greenwaldjared> restarting the X server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (that's greenwaldjared> backspace, not delete). greenwaldjared> Not to start a flame war, but my personal recommendation greenwaldjared> would be to switch to KDE, but I'm rather biased. KDE 3.5 greenwaldjared> is really good. :) You're not alone in that recommendation. ;) http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html -Jeff
On 12/15/05, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] Success, almost, with GNOME; Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared@gmail.com> adds:
greenwaldjared> What about .gnome or .gnome2 directories? There's always greenwaldjared> restarting the X server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (that's greenwaldjared> backspace, not delete).
greenwaldjared> Not to start a flame war, but my personal recommendation greenwaldjared> would be to switch to KDE, but I'm rather biased. KDE 3.5 greenwaldjared> is really good. :)
You're not alone in that recommendation. ;)
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html
I saw that the other day, but didn't want to drop the obvious "endorsed by..." tag line... :)
==> Regarding [Wlug] Success, almost, with GNOME; Ken Jones <jonesj@ziplink.net> adds: jonesj> Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new jonesj> account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all jonesj> of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself. jonesj> Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on jonesj> empty space did not work. jonesj> I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) jonesj> .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique jonesj> identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences? I think you might want to poke around in the .gnome directory. Try the diff between the new user's .gnome and yours. jonesj> One other question. The Applications launcher on GNOME does not jonesj> contain the LOG OUT feature. I know the command "shutdown", but I jonesj> can not find a command to Log Out. Is there one? What is it? It's under the Desktop launcher on my Fedora system. -Jeff
From: Ken Jones <jonesj@ziplink.net>
Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself.
Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on empty space did not work.
I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences?
Calls to xmodmap in your .bash*, .xinitrc, or startx setup files? If the buttons don't work in the program, maybe the program is fine, but somebody moved the buttons. This is just a random guess, of course. I have never seen an empty space on any desktop of mine. --Keith
After last nights meeting, I figured that I'd use KDE. I've used KDE on other machines and I liked it. Unfortunately, some stuff doesn't seem to work. For instance, on my gnome desktop, when I plug in my external USB hard drive, it shows up on the gnome desktop, but not on my KDE desktop. While I could've gotten around that, it also cannot be found in Konquerer, or even from a command line! That's the only thing I've found so far. I did notice that some apps were there and working when they didn't exist or didn't work on gnome. So I will keep using gnome on my Fedora Core 4 laptop, until I find a better one. Walt On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:09 -0500, Keith Wright wrote:
From: Ken Jones <jonesj@ziplink.net>
Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself.
Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on empty space did not work.
I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences?
Calls to xmodmap in your .bash*, .xinitrc, or startx setup files? If the buttons don't work in the program, maybe the program is fine, but somebody moved the buttons.
This is just a random guess, of course. I have never seen an empty space on any desktop of mine.
--Keith _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Walt Sawyer wrote:
After last nights meeting, I figured that I'd use KDE. I've used KDE on other machines and I liked it. Unfortunately, some stuff doesn't seem to work. For instance, on my gnome desktop, when I plug in my external USB hard drive, it shows up on the gnome desktop, but not on my KDE desktop. While I could've gotten around that, it also cannot be found in Konquerer, or even from a command line! That's the only thing I've found so far. I did notice that some apps were there and working when they didn't exist or didn't work on gnome. So I will keep using gnome on my Fedora Core 4 laptop, until I find a better one. Walt
HI Walt, I'm not quite sure *how* to make it work, but I do remember having the functionality that you described in KDE. In fact, I remember turning it off(!) because I didn't care for it - gotta love the choices in Linux. ;-) However, I can't remember how I disabled it, either. My guess would be that this has something to do with hotplug and /etc/fstab for starters. I'm not quite sure about the KDE hook. Later, Andy
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:09 -0500, Keith Wright wrote:
From: Ken Jones <jonesj@ziplink.net>
Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself.
Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on empty space did not work.
I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences?
Calls to xmodmap in your .bash*, .xinitrc, or startx setup files? If the buttons don't work in the program, maybe the program is fine, but somebody moved the buttons.
This is just a random guess, of course. I have never seen an empty space on any desktop of mine.
--Keith _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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