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Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing



Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:29:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run Gnome 2.2 on a PowerBook 17" running Debian Testing.  
> It runs really slow and the panel never shows.  The only way I can get X 
> running is to start up an xterm and then run sawfish manually.  I've 
> tried running "gnome-session -failsafe" mannually and it is so slow.  
> The splash screen takes a long time though recently it seems to be 
> faster.  Then it takes a long while for the icons in the splash screen 
> to be displayed.  Finally sawfish fires up and that is it.  But I don't 
> have the panel and the sawfish menus don't allow me to fire up apps, not 
> even an xterm.  HELP!!!
I had a similar problem on an iBook with sid, some time ago.
I think I solved it by disabling fam

Hope this helps,

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