Re: [PLUG] Debian - GNOME seems to have disappeared ...

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:40, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Check ~/.xsession-errors to see what the problem is.  There was an issue
> a while back with one of the GNOME libs (libbonobo?  Can't quite
> remember).  I thought that was fixed though.
> 
.xsession-errors:

localhost being added to access control list
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
SESSION_MANAGER=local/latitude-cs:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2857
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
gnome-smproxy: unable to open display :0.0
sawfish: Can't open display: :0.0

Had to CTRL-ALT-BKSPACE to kill it.

> As others have said, GNOME has switched to a gconf-registry sysytem for
> handling details like what WM to use and so on, and they have decided
> that the default is going to be metacity, instead of allowing any
> compliant WM.  *sigh* - starting to smack too much of Windows for my
> tastes, but that's what they want, I guess.  If your old GNOME setup
> used a different WM, you may run into some problems.

Wonder why mine says "sawfish", then?

> If ~/.xsession-errors has nothing that looks fixable, and you're still
> getting problems, make sure you have metacity installed, mv your old
> setup out of the way (should be ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome-private
> ~/.gnome2-private) and try again - it may be some difficulty related to
> your particular setup.  

Deleted all those; no change. Really makes me wonder why it wants the
old sawfish, then. I have no gnome config files in my home directory.
(except for config files for some gnome programs, such as evolution,
which I am using to write this message, etc)

> If none of that gets you anywhere, write back,
> I'll try to dig up the library issue and the fix.  It should be in the
> archives of debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o if you want to look through, but
> I think you'll have to search via google - lists was still down last I
> looked.

I purge gnome-session, gnome-control-center and metacity, and
reinstalled. No joy.

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