From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 20:18:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF3037B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001023031719.FBYO4464.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:17:19 -0700 Message-ID: <39F3AE2A.9A729E2C@home.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:19:07 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stijn Hoop Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 [was Re: FBSD 411, XFree86 4.0.1, Gnome 1.2 Theme Selection Prob] References: <20001022041618.36EF91D4E@baddog.yi.org> <39F27774.5A918994@home.com> <20001022104607.A9109@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:13:24PM -0700, Rob wrote: > > Good luck with Gnome 1.2. I finally got mine to start in 2 minutes or > > less by using icewm. Still, I had to turn on core cleaning in > > periodic.conf to get rid of the dozens of core files from running it > > every day. Now I'm using Windowmaker. As nice looking as Afterstep, > > but has a couple of nice graphical config programs. I think I'll wait a > > while before trying Gnome again, until the bugs are worked out. Rob. > > Strange - works like a charm here. In my experience it's much much more > stable than Gnome 1.0. > > Did you delete your old config files from 1.0 when you tried 1.2? > Did you do a fresh reinstall of all your ports, no cruft from Gnome 1.0 in > the way? > > --Stijn There was no previous Gnome. A fresh 4.1.1. system. I should have checked the mail archives before I tried to install it, as they are full of similar tales. Perhaps there is some yet unknown incompatibility. BTW, I am using XFree86-4.0. Could that be the problem? Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message