Hello, On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:17:05PM -0400, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: > 1. The GNOME settings daemon informs me that it can't start with the > following message: <snip> > > 2. GNOME tries to start its sound support, but I have no sound card, so > it complains. I have disabled the "Enable Sound Daemon Startup" in the > GNOME configurator, but it still gives me a "Could not open /dev/mixer" > message when I start X. How can I disable this completely? <snip> > 3. When I try to start GNOME Terminal, I get the message "Failed to > execute child process 'NO_XALF' (no such file or directory)". When I go > into the icon's properties, the command is "NO_XALF > gnome-terminal --use-factory --start-factory-server". If I remove the > "NO_XALF" part, it starts up just fine. So what is this "NO_XALF"? <snip> They are all GNOME-related. Try asking in more general or in gnome-related lists. > 4. Every window that opens comes up in the top-left corner of the > screen, with its menu bar over the title bar (so I can't move it). This > is very annoying. No window manager. Go to the gnome control center and enter one (wmaker, fvwm2, ..) > 5. Each time a window opens, the computer beeps once. When a window is > closed, it beeps again. This is also very annoying. No idea about this on.e > These are all problems I never had before on x86, so I have no idea > where to start to try and fix them. In fact, the Mystique comes from a > Red Hat x86 system where it worked perfectly. The Debian install is > fresh, done yesterday. > > Below is the output of startx, and my XF86Config-4 file. Hopefully these > will help in finding out what the problems are... They are all not X related. Unfortunately the only way I know to teach gnome the window manager is by running the control center. Greetings Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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