Re: Gnome, Nautilus, KDE anomalies
Oh, and I forgot, in addition to all this, when I start Galeon, it
starts spawning Galeon sessions as fast as it can. If I start Mozilla,
I get the hourglass for a while, then no browser.
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 14:22, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I am running Woody with backports. I have KDE 2.2.2 and Gnome 2. I
> mostly wanted Gnome 2 so I could run a recent version of Gnomemeeting,
> but I installed lots of the rest of it anyway to get anti-aliasing for
> gnome based apps, try it out, etc. I sign into a KDE session.
>
> Some odd things are happening. When I sign into a Gnome session, the
> apps appear, but no window frames, title bars, controls.
>
> In KDE, I have 4 desktops, each with it's own background. This loads as
> expected and I see my chosen backgrounds, but after a short time (less
> than a minute) all four display my Gnome background, along with the
> default 3 icons that appear on a Gnome desktop (I never left any new
> icons on the Gnome desktop, so I don't know if those would appear too).
>
> I can't get rid of the Gnome background. 'ps ax' shows several nautilus
> sessions running, and 'killall nautilus' gets rid of the Gnome icons,
> but not the Gnome background. Right clicking on the desktop does not
> get me a context menu. All appears well when I run the KDE control
> center - my chosen backgrounds are all as expected, but they don't
> appear on the desktop (some Gnome thing on top of them?).
>
> The frameless windows in Gnome desktop have been that way for a week or
> two, but the KDE problems only started 2 or 3 days ago. 'chkrootkit'
> finds nothing obvious. I am investigating firewalls, and tools to
> configure them (iptables), and that might coincide with the KDE
> problems, but might be coincidental.
>
> I'm behind a Gateway/Router/NAT/firewall on a cable modem. I'm trying
> to learn enough to set up firewalling now, but this is in the way of me
> studying any more.
>
> Any suggestions? Or questions? I'm some newbie/some knowledgeable, so
> it would help if you told me how to find out anything you might want to
> know about my configuration.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bret
>
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> bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu
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