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Re: GNOME2 questions



On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 16:21, Johan Ehnberg wrote:
> I just installed gnome 2 in sid and noticed a few things:
> 
> 1) gdm looks the same as in woody (gnome 1.4). I had the backported 
> gnome 2 packages in woody and I'd like to use the "graphical" login.
Check the archives from debian-gtk.  There was some discusion on this. 
>From what I remember, some parts of gnome2 dont build on some archs and
the gdm maintainer doesnt want gdm2 in there till everything does
build.  So till then:
deb http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./
deb-src http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./


> 2) Something seems to be very slow with gnome-terminal. Scrolling text 
> in it eats my CPU to 100% and the scrolling is slow.
Do you have transparecny enabled?  That can make it slow.

> 3) I can't find advanced control panel functions like "remember window 
> palcement" and so on. I hate it when I have to maximize mozilla every time.

Are you using metacity or sawfish?  From what I remember sawfish does this 
type of thing, while metacity doesn't.  I think. 



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Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org>



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