From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 12:43:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FADC37B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [217.35.26.219] (helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #6) id 15oVRX-0007TT-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:43:03 +0100 Received: from [192.168.10.11] (helo=pan.realtime.co.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15oVLT-0002ZG-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:36:47 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15oVQA-00009k-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:41:38 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: switching desktops in gnome Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com Date: 02 Oct 2001 20:41:38 +0100 Message-ID: <86y9mt25jh.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Since reloading my machine with FreeBSD 4.4, I have installed Gnome from ports (1.4.1b2) Since doing this, I can no longer use my keyboard to switch workspaces like I could before. I have this problem is icewm and windowmaker. When I start using Gnome, the keyboard works fine. I can switch between workspaces using META-CTRL-LEFT and META-CTRL-RIGHT. At the time of launching an application, all is still functional. After launching an application I can move to either the next or the previous workspace. At this point I can no longer use the keyboard to move desktops and I can no longer use the keyboard to launch applications (eg META-T launches an Eterm) Once I open an application in this workspace using the mouse, I get keyboard control back and can then move between workspaces again, until I change to a workspace with no running applications. Then the problem repeats. I've removed gnome, re-installed it, and deleted $HOME/.gnome and $HOME/.gnome_private, but when I start gnome again the problem persists. I've tried using both icewm and windowmaker without gnome, and I am able to switch workspaces to my hearts content. Has anyone else come across this and if so, can you suggest a solution ? Thanks in advance, -- Wayne Pascoe Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message