On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:31, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:00:25PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > I've installed and uninstalled gnome-control-center/experimental (I > > wish there was a virtual package named gnome-control-centre that > > called it in - not being American, it is far more natural to type > > that,) and each time, my Control Center/Desktop Preferences/Server > > Settings/System Settings is constrained to: Screensaver. Nothing else. > > No Window Manager, Background, Mouse Properties - whatever. Add in > > that the Screensaver configuration doesn't run, and things are a bit > > limiting. > > I have run into this problem as well, it has something to do with > gnome-vfs (that helps a lot I'm sure ;-) ) I have found, that pointing > nautilus to "preferences:///" will give you the list of capplets. > > One thing you can do is check the contents of > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders to see if there are any files that are not > supposed to be there (i.e. not part of any package, do dpkg -S filename > on each file). That was it - two lingering files: applications.vfolder-info and preferences.vfolder-info - now yanked and preferences:/// and the Applications menu looks much, much better. Although there are still no System Settings or Server Settings, that is reflective of the absence of any tools related to those being installed. Probably some hidden packages that I haven't seen. Must have been something lingering from an earlier update of gnome-vfs (which I did prior to the main Gnome 2 migration.) > > > I'm also wondering where to look for a settings applet to change > > window managers - there doesn't appear to be one with > > gnome-control-center/experimental, and my apt-cache and apt-file > > searches aren't getting me any closer. Have I missed a page of > > directions in this transition? > > gnome2 does not have a readily available way to change wm's (for some > reason, that option was deemed "crack"). the way I did it earlier today > was to "killall metacity && sawfish" from a terminal, then run > gnome-session-properties to remove metacity, and set sawfish as a > respawning process, then run gnome-session-save. Come on now, isn't that > more intuitive? ;-) How non-Micro$oftish! How KDE 2.2ish! Actually, I can deal with that fine, given that Sawfish is not working well here, and I'm at least temporarily ensconed with Metacity, which, other than stacking control, is *good enough* - better than the M$ behaviour. > > > -Mark -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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