Observations on Gnome-2.14 (original) (raw)

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 1 17:52:59 UTC 2006

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Kevin Oberman wrote:

I have one system running V6-stable that is now running Gnome-2.14. Some things are really nice about it, but there are some oddities and some things that need touching.

First, an easy one...netspeedapplet needs to be rebuilt. I think a bump of PORTREVISION is in order.

This has been done.

When I first started 2.14, I got messages that several icons (gnome-calculator, logout, screen-lock) could not be found and were displayed as white icons with a red 'X'. But after acknowledging the message, all of the icons appeared and work fine.

I have not seen this on any of my machines.

This might be a race as I am running i386 on an AMD dual-core 4400+ Athlon-64 processor and it may be getting something done before things are ready. This is also intermittent. It happens about half the time when I start Gnome. (I use startx, not gdm.)

Maybe, but that seems fishy. I guess gnome-settings-daemon could be taking a long time to startup.

On several start operations the icons in the weather applet are missing. Other times they appear. Probably the same "can't find icon" issue. gnome-terminal has sometimes crashed on logout from Gnome. I have not tried to debug this at all. I do see that the contents of .gnome2/session no longer have information on all of the gnome-terminal windows. Just a simple command, so I guess gnome-terminal is storing this somewhere else. (I need to find out where to debug why at least one window never restarts.)

For GDM sessions, it's ~/.xsession-errors. I thought startx would output to the calling VTY.

Sessions are a bit messed up. As already reported, all manually startup-sessions are gone after the upgrade and must be re-entered. No longer is there an ordering option, but this might be settable via the "Current Session" tab. I'll paly around with it if I get a little time. The logout tool no longer has a check-box to save the session. I THINK I saved it by going into the "Sessions" prefs and selecting to automatically save the session on logout and logging out. I then logged back in and de-selected that option. There is still an option (which is selected) to "Ask on logout". It appears to be a no-op in 2.14, though.

Correct. It looks like they axed this for 2.14. As a workaround, gnome-session-save --gui will save your current session.

Noise level issue: we really need a FreeBSD splash. The default Gnome splash is just too boring looking.

If you build it, we will vote.

Joe

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