From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 7:13:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1ED37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Angel.telocity.com (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02150; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:11:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Fabiana X-Sender: angel@Angel.telocity.com To: Matt Bettinger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: TEMPFIX: Re: FBSD 411, XFree86 4.0.1, Gnome 1.2 Theme SelectionProb In-Reply-To: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC1990DB@FIN_SYN> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As long as you have Blackbox installed, go to the Gnome Control Center, under Window Manager, select Add, give it a name, Blackbox seems pretty straightforward, and under command, put blackbox. That should work. If simply putting blackbox under command does not work, try putting in the full commmand line "/usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox" don't quote me on that because I don't remember if that is where the blackbox binary is stored, do a locate blackbox once it is installed to make sure. Good luck! F. On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Matt Bettinger wrote: > I too have had problems with window managers namely Gnome + E. I didn't > realise how memory intensive gnome + e was until i ran Top. In addition to > this memory usage another reason i chose to switch was when i exit out og X > my system reboots! This does not occur EVERYTIME but once is too much for > me. Another thing is I get alot of GTK errors whenever i exit (and the > machine does not reboot) I am using Metro-X server and looking for a decent > WM. Is there a way i can try to run Gnome + blackbox? I have the files > just not sure as how to make them both load. > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Fabiana > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 8:27 AM > To: Chris Dempsey > Cc: Fabiana; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: TEMPFIX: Re: FBSD 411, XFree86 4.0.1, Gnome 1.2 Theme > SelectionProb > > > I having problems with the windowmanager too. I couldn't come up with a > fix for that one. It still complains when I try to switch > windowmanagers. Hopefully it will get fixed soon. > > F. > > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Chris Dempsey wrote: > > > Thanks for the info. The one thing I didn't try. I > > can deal without the autopreview thing. Have you been > > having the same problems with windowmanager capplet? > > > > Chris Dempsey > > --- Fabiana wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > > > Chris Dempsey wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Done. Still crashes. Exact error message: > > > > > Application "theme-selector-capplet" (process > > > 19278) > > > > > has crashed due to a fatal error. > > > (Segementation > > > > > fault) > > > > > > > > I'm having the same problem. Near as I can > > > figure, it's due to > > > > gnomelibs-1.2.5, since that's the last thing I > > > changed, and it was > > > > working before that. Make sure you send a bug > > > report so they will know > > > > the magnitude of the problem. I've been making a > > > point of sending a bug > > > > report every time something crashes. I want them > > > to know how many people > > > > use gnome on freebsd. I've actually started > > > getting some responses from > > > > them, so I think it's paying off. > > > > > > > > Doug > > > > PS, I tried windowmaker yesterday. Plenty of > > > crashing/errors with it > > > > too. > > > > -- > > > > "The dead cannot be seduced." > > > > - Kai, "Lexx" > > > > > > > > Do YOU Yahoo!? > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > > > of the message > > > > > > > I was having the same problem with Gnome, I didn't > > > really solve it as > > > such, nor did I figure out what the problem was > > > exactly, however, to keep > > > it from crashing, I disabled the theme preview. That > > > kept it from > > > crashing. It's a temporary fix until an actual > > > solution can be pinpointed. > > > > > > F. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message