Gnome2 wrapper. No flames this time please

chuzwuzza · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 24

Yes, I did already know that. If you'll read my post you'll see that my problem is that the tree WON'T display. It gives me an error. I have since discovered that it is all sidepanels, not just the tree giving me errors.

bazmonkey · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 4 Location: USA

I can't help with the other things, but with #1, the icon problems, it has to do with gnome-core being removed. Those missing icons are in gnome-core, and it takes them with it when you unmerge it. I copies /usr/share/pixmaps before the unmerge and threw them back in. Or, emerging gnome2 after gnome1.4 is gone should work as well.[/quote]

ultimate · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 9

when i try to emerge swafish i get the following message:

bash-2.05a# emerge -p sawfish

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies \
!!! Error: couldn't find match for >=x11-libs/rep-gtk-0.16 in x11-wm/sawfish-2.0

got any tips?

Spider · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 5:03 pm Post subject:

Spider · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: Nautilus in GNOME 2...

Spider · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 5:16 pm Post subject:

link · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 1:05 am Post subject: TTF question

I dunno if this has already been asked, but this seems like the place. I have a bunch of TTf's installed in a directory, and XFree can read them properly, and they are available in xfontsel and Gimp 1.2. But when I try to access them using the Gnome2 font selector, all their names show up, but only some actually are rendered. Others just get rendered as some huge thick block text (they do actually get rendered and anti-aliased, but not they way they're supposed to). I've been able to get them all rendered properly before in Gnome 1.4 (and they are present and correct in Gimp 1.2). Any ideas?
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sibn · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 36

nemhain · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 9:40 am Post subject:

When I try to emerge gal2 this happens:

jade:../gal-api.sgml:164:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:176:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:186:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:151:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:159:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:164:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:176:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:186:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:164:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:176:4:E: node processing loop detected
jade:../gal-api.sgml:186:4:E: node processing loop detected

These lines keeps on looping over and over and over again,
so emerge never finishes.

Any ideas?

Zu` · l33t Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 716 Location: BE

kachaffeous · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 86

Spider,
Is it possible to use gdm 2 (gdmgreeter?) without the rest of gnome? I tried using the a USE=-gnome setting but still get all the gnome pkgs. I have rebuilt my machine several times trying out gnome2, kde etc. I always end back up using enlightenment though. I just want a nicer looking login screen (you can only do so much with xdm).

If that isn't possible are the gnome2 binaries available? Can I do a emerge -b gdm and just delete everything except for gdm?

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

Spider · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 5:12 am Post subject:

Spider · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 5:18 am Post subject: Re: gdm 2 without gnome?

Spider · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 5:34 am Post subject:

nemhain · Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 11:58 am Post subject:

Regarding the jade and gal2 problem:

I let the jade-looping continue for over 20 minutes (with 100% CPU-load on an Athlon 800), and finally it escaped the looping and gal2 compiling ended with success :)

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

For those who run into stupid gnome-panel problems like me by removing the "minimizing" options for a floating or or small docked panel:
This will leave your panel unconfigureable, because there is no way to righ-click on the panel to get back to the options menu. This bug is known and will be hopefully fixed in the 2.0.1 release. In the meantime there is one workaround. Locate your cursor over the panel and press CTRL-F10 to open the options menu and enable the minimize buttons.
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jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

Another gnome-panel problem.

If you try to update xchat it tries to drag gnome-panel 1.4 in. Is this a problem?

bash-2.05a# emerge -pu xchat

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.18.0-r1 to /
[ebuild U ] app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.9-r1 to /
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.1 to /
[ebuild U ] net-irc/xchat-1.8.9-r2 to /

bash-2.05a#
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Buchu · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Paris

Gnome2 powerfull !!!

Spider · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 11:13 pm Post subject: re: Another gnome-panel problem.

dol-sen · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 6:42 am Post subject: gnome2 panels and menus

I have almost recreated with a lot of greif trying to figure out the (ahem) intuitive interface, the normal bottom menu bar. It seems that there is no way to add programs to the main program menu or rearrage them to my liking. I believe I read words to that effect in the help. The only way I have found so far is to add a shortcuts item or drawer item then create a loader item on the panel/configure it for the program then drag&drop it into the drawer/shortcut. I needed to because I emerged endeavour & nedit but they failed to put an entry in the main menu. I had to search for them and manually. I did notice that galeon and evolution emerge added themselves to the menu.

gedit has been unreliable for me, (even tried a re-emerge) half the time on startup it goes full screen with no window controls and I had to kill it from the file menu. Is this a known bug?
Endeavour is much faster than nautilus with more features even has an full archiver, nedit is working much better than gedit.

nemhain · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 8:01 am Post subject:

dol-sen:

Enter "applications:///" in the Location field in Nautilus.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

The normal user should be able to access this via the start-here icon on the desktop. But when you disable the support for nautilus to draw the desktop then you'll end up with a problem like this.
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nemhain · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:15 am Post subject:

Is there any way to add more apps to the "Open with" function in nautilus (when u right click on a file)? It used to be possible in gnome 1.4, but I can't seem to find it now...