From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 10 13:50:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232CF106568B for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:50:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f204.google.com (mail-qy0-f204.google.com [209.85.221.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCF28FC1A for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so708456qyk.3 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:50:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TZsXYXQiCeW3B0UW0Q1SmE2mtii7QMT0KnxLcI6XmQY=; b=Dft+KnQAoi1X6i68RKAsBtkYxMhuKHclnV5JSUtYQF9zc2PpkW5TXHsDcd8GkvHCkR jVgZecS3+CU757ypPABlGbllryWAHTotvlOx0Rx2/iLQnojCBnenwafZYIRrM3jJPuKS JXv2Kd2jcyPomdjNaFlqG31QhB6U4lHHHfU9Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aPuLtES8PsvrcXaPh44hXtJn5vvTF7cCtftSsHk+Pt6WQ/F+fWVMsHk6V4mXVY7PVD /0wAh3uoeyGLuaFUO1Mp76ZVb9WtDQ2BdSkeZo9vZ8McbNSImm8aZ6+Celvk8Te2I96F wk51qAVwdKf/Wr3kB8iL7VGQOH4p5hMBdnDk0= Received: by 10.224.2.69 with SMTP id 5mr1240062qai.367.1247233848297; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?152.144.218.124? ([203.92.44.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1525674qwb.40.2009.07.10.06.50.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A574734.9060409@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:20:44 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Strange behaviour on Gnome with FreeBSD-7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:50:49 -0000 Hello, This message was earlier posted to freebsd-gnome, from where there was no response. I am consequently re-posting to freebsd-questions in hope of something better. I had FreeBSD-7.2 on my system a few days back, but had to reinstall it afresh last week. In the new install, I did not install any packages from the distribution media. Instead I built everything from ports. The previous installation used gnome packages from the distribution media itself. There is one problem that I faced with the old installation and am facing with the new installation as well. Upon startx, all font sizes (application, desktop, document, fixed, window title) are always one unit less (in size) compared to what they are set. The moment I right-click on the desktop and select 'Change desktop background', the font sizes get incremented to the correct values everywhere. With the new installation, I am facing additional - and much more serious - problems, maybe on account of something I have missed. 1) Window applications which normally remember their size and position (eg, Nautilus) have lost this capability. Now I have to resize and reposition these windows each time I exec gnome-session from .xinitrc 2) Resizing/repositioning windows happens in slow, jittery movements with the display getting wavy till the window is dropped into its desired size/position 3) Scrolling up and down a window (eg in Firefox3, Nautilus) using the mouse or the scrollbar is painfully slow, with the display again getting highly wavy. If anybody has any clue what could possibly be wrong with my setup, I would be grateful to find out what. Thanks in advance -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com