Stephen Gran on 7 Dec 2003 11:42:02 -0500


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


On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:15:08PM -0500, Michael Leone said:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:40, Stephen Gran wrote:
> .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.

This is that library problem - liborbit or libbonobo, athough I can't
find the threads about this now.  It's a particular version problem, and
only some versions of (whichever library it is) work with the
gnome-session/nautilus setup.  The others just refuse to connect to the
X server for some reason.  Try installing nautilus (as in the other
email), and see how that goes.

> > 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?

Gconf key.  Use the gconf editor and change the key
/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current to /usr/bin/metacity
- sawfish does still work, but the integration is not as good.  Do not
save your session afterwards - the running sawfish will make it write
that back to that key.  See how I think it's like Windows? :)

> > 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)

I forgot to mention ~/.gconf and ~/.gconf2 - although deleting them has
in the past not always gotten me the results I had hoped for - there are
probably other places it keeps this stuff that I haven't yet found.  XML
registry keys.  blech.

Hopefully you're getting somewhere now.  Write back if not.
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