Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:33:39 -0800 From: Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@gmail.com> To: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome's bottom panel doesn't display running programs Message-ID: <d5eb95fc0601312033i260140b1o85b4003f8e5e5042@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601301013.47619.kjelderg@gmail.com> References: <d5eb95fc0601281936p40f9faa4r299430fd02745fda@mail.gmail.com> <200601301013.47619.kjelderg@gmail.com>
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On 1/29/06, Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sunday 29 January 2006 12:36、Derrick Ryalls さんは書きました: > > Greetings, > > > > I did some searching, but didn't find anything so I was hoping someone > > might have a clue on this. > > > > I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most > > everything seems to work except the lower panel does not display the > > current running programs or the other virtual desktops. I can alt-tab > to > > the other programs in the same virtual terminal, and can use cntrl-alt > > (left/right) to get to the other terminals, but none show the normal bar > at > > the bottom. The top bar looks normal (has normal menus, clock, etc). I > > hope this is just dependancy that needs to be rebuilt, but am unsure of > > which one do try. > > > > My install was something like this: > > > > Install Freebsd 6 using 6.0 release disc burned last month. > > Install basic packages via sysinstall > > At this point I tried portupgrade -NPPR x11/gnome2 > > After many weird issue on out of date dependancies, I used the > > gnome2.12update script to fix the issues. > > After update script was finished, I executed a normal install: cd > > x11/gnome2; make install clean > > > > The final install did complete successfully and gnome has been running, > but > > the bottom panel isn't working. > > > > Thanks in advance for any clues. > > If I recall correctly (can't test at the moment due to hard disk failure) > GNOME relies on DBUS working to get everything working proper. I believe > that the window list is part of that. Try making sure that DBUS is in > fact > working. You enable it by putting dbus_enable="YES" or similar (from > memory, > that hard disk thing) in /etc/rc.conf. Since that only affects at boot > time, > either reboot or find the script (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ somewhere, I should > think) and start it. Hope this does it for you, > > Eric > > -- > Emails appear more personalised with signatures. > > > I tried enabling and rebooting but I still have the issue. I have never noticed/needed that switch in rc.conf before though.
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