Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:52:22 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My impression about Gnome 2.10 + a couple of Qs Message-ID: <1111362743.99522.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20050320113052.2c86528a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <20050320113052.2c86528a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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--=-5Qe3cjMnLdGqyhrpbzXG Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 11:30 +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I've been a long time WindowMaker user and, although I've used KDE and > Gnome in the past, I never really got into them. However, I wanted to > give Gnome 2.10 a try, and I have to admit I'm liking it, and will > probably switch to it fulltime when they fix some of the memory usage > bugs (read: nautilus). I'd like to thank the FreeBSD gnome team for > their great job as well. >=20 > Now, there's a little problem. I use xemacs as my coding editor, and > never had a problem before. Gnome insists on changing the aspect of the > app, like KDE did, although I remember KDE having an option in the > control center to disable that. I can't find this anywhere in the > Gnome control center. How can I tell Gnome not to touch my xemacs? Or > is it hidden inside the gconf files? >=20 > This is how xemacs looks, with white bg instead of gray: > http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org/images/emacs-fubared.png >=20 > It's a stock xemacs built from ports + the NeXT icons. >=20 > Besides that, I'm getting X errors every time paren highlight happens > or I'm doing some editing. The errors look like this: >=20 > X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) > Resource id in failed request: 0x1000be7 > Serial number of failed request: 29461 > Current serial number in output stream: 29463 > X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 25 (X_SendEvent) > Resource id in failed request: 0x1000be7 > Serial number of failed request: 29462 > Current serial number in output stream: 29463 > X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) > Resource id in failed request: 0x1000be8 > Serial number of failed request: 29469 > Current serial number in output stream: 29471 > X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 25 (X_SendEvent) > Resource id in failed request: 0x1000be8 > Serial number of failed request: 29470 > Current serial number in output stream: 29471 >=20 > This does not happen when used with WindowMaker or XFCE, so I'm > assuming it's metacity's/Gnome's fault. See http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-gnome/2003-October/003503.ht= ml. Basically, gnome-settings-daemon merges X resource settings at startup.= Some problems with this as well as a possible workaround are discussed in= this thread. I'm not sure what came of George's quest with the GNOME peop= le over this. Joe >=20 > Cheers, --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-5Qe3cjMnLdGqyhrpbzXG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCPgy2b2iPiv4Uz4cRApKdAJ9Kj6NHEiETvwrCErr2VAmETJn1dgCffi2p eBGpa9WFCxlGHuSKgPGR7MQ= =ocrE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5Qe3cjMnLdGqyhrpbzXG--
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