Since work on Gnome 3 started, a bunch of those gconf settings have stopped working because of the Gnome devs slacking on upkeep.

Not to mention. Isn't the release like 2-3 months quicker than usual? Or is it just me. (I'm too lazy to look at a calender.)

I don't remember where I read it. Maybe it was just directly running dbus was deprecated. I only remember what I read because I said "huh" to myself in surprise.

Finally figured this out. While the answer was not written in the gnome faq, it was written in the XFCE faq. In my xinitrc I had to switch dbus-launch-session for ck-launch-session as dbus is depricated. Everything works great now.

The exact line I use is:

XDG_MENU_PREFIX="/gnome-" XSESSION ...

autounmask seems to automatically add USE flags as well as keywords now. I noticed it edits to my package.use file from when I unmaked Gnome 2.28.

Sorry guys. Let me try to be clear about what I think it wrong. Shouldn't net.lo be sufficient to start apache2/vsftpd etc when the init.d script has net required? I think I am either missing something, or that may be a bug in gentoo marked as a feature.

I don't always have a wireless connection on my laptop and sometimes I like to use my computer to show clients specific webpages on my local hard drive. Since they use PHP, I have no choice and have to have a web server running to parse the code.

Once I removed the requirement for net from /etc ...

Background:
I gave been dealing with a Dell Latitude D600 that has had sticky mouse buttons in Linux for a while. (Untested in Windows.) Both the Motherboard and trackpad portions have been replaced. It even exhibits the same behavior with an external mouse. Same problem with different Linux ...

Okay, I seem to be having better luck with "onsgmls -wxml -s /usr/share/sgml/opensp-1.5.2/OpenSP/xml.dcl index.html" than I was earlier. The firefox validator extension still doesn't quite match up, but at least this is working.

Anyone have a clue why? Am I using it wrong? When doing jobs that require w3c validity, it would make it much easier if I could test locally on my system. The documentation is horrible. I am trying to look through the w3c validator's source code for a clue now.

Anyone have more experience than I?

You may want to do an "emerge -e world" at some point and browse very carefully the messages that come up after installation. Have you run "lafilefixer --justfixit" after upgrades when emerge warns you to?

Now I am on xfce which runs smoothly. Isn't it also using metacity?

No it does not. I think your gconf options are probably fried for metacity. You didn't try creating a fresh account and seeing if metacity works correctly like I said? If you test it, a lot of maybes can be narrowed down.

.xinitrc only works for if you start your x session with xinit or xsession.

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not ...

If the terminal works as root, why didn't you try creating a fresh user to see if the gnome-terminal works for them?

When I don't have a network connection, I want to be able to see it locally. When I do have an internet connection I want outsiders to also be able to see it.

That was how it was originally when I was trying to figure out what to do. I then changed it to *:8080

I can try. Though people from the outside world won't be able to see apache.

For some reason, apache insists that I have to have a real network connection before running it locally. I am pretty sure I don't have that specified anywhere in httpd.conf or the vhosts.

zachary@cubber ~ $ sudo apache2
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

Is there ...

I generally agree. Though the current Ubuntu interface definitely is doing it's best to look like Mac OS X this time. Most of their stuff is as far away from vanilla you can get anyway. Still hoping for some things to stabilize when Gnome 3.0 hits.

Meh. Gnome has been slowly turning into a buggy mess leading up to Gnome 3.0. I am hoping things start reversing after that, but have been considering switching to XFCE or at least Gnome light.

I use UIM, but I have to add uim-xim to get non-gtk apps to use UIM. My .xinitrc is:

#! /bin/bash

export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim
export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim
export QT_IM_MODULE=uim

/usr/bin/uim-xim &

LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" XDG_MENU_PREFIX="/gnome-" XSESSION="Gnome" exec dbus-launch ...

dE_logics, I can, but I generally don't logging into the whole gnome environment as root. I wonder if I should try GDM to see if it fixes anything. I currently use startx with .xinitrc having:

LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" XDG_MENU_PREFIX="/gnome-" XSESSION="Gnome" exec dbus-launch ...

cubber gwaei # emerge --info | grep hal
USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 archive bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cjk cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dhcpcd directfb disk-partition dri ffmpeg fortran gd gdbm gif gimp glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm ...

You need to give your user permission to use pm-suspend since it is a default root permission with chmod or sudoers, also you need to write scripts to get the buttons to work since your user doesn't have permission to hibernate or suspend by default.

Gnome doesn't run pm-suspend directly, it goes ...