Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 01:11, Brady Jarvis wrote:
> rusty wrote:
> > El Jueves, 29 de Abril de 2004 06:01, Dean Hamstead escribió:
> >
> >>ive been able to get gnome-2.6 to install having tweaked
> >>my sources.list file and then using
> >>using the apt-get gnome-desktop-environment method
> >
> >
> > Me too, on a alubook 17 First generation.
> >
> >
> >>however, after loging in at gdm, i have a long wait
> >>and then although gnome 2.6 has started, the underlying
> >>window manager has not.
> >
> >
> > I have the same problem exactly, so when gnome 2.6 starts take 5 or 10
> > minutes. I thought initially that gnome-smproxy was doing anything wrong. I
> > tried to change to sawfish and the result is the same.
> >
> > Anybody has any clue ´bout time that gnome 2.6 takes to start?.
> >
> > Sorry for my english :-)
> >
>
> I did an upgrade last night and am now experiencing the same issue. It
> looks very similar to what happens when switching from sawfish to
> metacity, before metacity takes control. I can start most apps (not
> gnome-sessions) but when they display they have no title bars and I
> cannot resize or move windows.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246617 .
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