From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 23:12:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E5616A419 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp4.clear.net.nz (smtp4.clear.net.nz [203.97.37.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA18A13C447 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from zmori.markir.net (121-72-77-242.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.77.242]) by smtp4.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JSN001CEH4GAF10@smtp4.clear.net.nz> for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:57:54 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:57:48 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-id: <47587E6C.1050205@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) Subject: Gnome 2.20 upgrade niggles X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:12:55 -0000 3 days ago I upgraded Gnome from 2.18.3 to 2.20.1 (as part of a 'portupgrade -a'). The actual upgrade went very well, but there are a few niggles that I thought I'd report on: 1/ Ugly fonts When logging on with users who have pre-existing (say from 2.18 or earlier) Gnome configurations - there is a noticeable change to how fonts look. I believe its due to the change from bitmap to anti-aliased fonts. Initially I worked around this by changing DPI from 99->96 in the font details section. 2/ Hang during session startup I get intermittent hangs during login - usually 'bonobo-activation-server' spinning on 99% cpu.. The I *think* this was due to 2.20 not liking something in the pre-existing Gnome config for the users concerned - as I found destroying all .gcon*, .gnom* .font* etc directories and setting up the Gnome configuration again seems to have cured it. I found after this that the fonts look ok without any modifications now... 3/ Gdm respawns at shutdown Shutting down the system from the Greeter restults in gdm respawing itself just before the system is powered off. This seems to be a known issue (e.g https://bugs.launchpad.net/suse/+source/gdm/+bug/126797) There is a workaround patch for this (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=174000) - which didn't really help for me (maybe I need it to sleep for more than 20s...) Cheers Mark