Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:12:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>, Gnome List <gnome-list@gnome.org> Subject: Re: nautilus sux Message-ID: <20020918165847.A65384-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <1032323773.76378.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 18 Sep 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:33, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > I am trying to run Gnome 2.0 and before running startx I `setenv > > WINDOW_MANAGER metacity` (tcsh). > You don't need this. GNOME will remember your window manager across > sessions. Once you set things up for metacity, GNOME will spawn that > each time it starts. Joe Marcus, thanks for your help so far - very inspiring! I guess my question then is... once I have a session completely laid out to my liking, is there a simple way to create a backup of the file(s)? Maybe from ~/.gnome2/ someplace? Is there a way to construct or reconstruct my ~/.xinitrc based on a "session" that I like? Similar question about this -- my ~/.xinitrc has a line that says "exec gnome-session." Is there another DIFFERENT command line I can use here such as something like just "gnome &" instead of gnome-session? > > It seems I keep getting layers and layers of desktops and the "taskbar" at > > the bottom of the window gets obfuscated. When startx is done, I can right > > click and choose "New Terminal" but the usual borders of [_] and [X] and > > [-] etc are missing, cropped away. When I run "top" and kill nautilus > > things come back. > This I have never seen. Perhaps it's related to your environment > setting in .xinitrc. Perhaps a screen shot would help visualize what > you're seeing. I have been seeing it quite frequently lately - I'll make a screenshot at somepoint (or try to, since my MainMenu button disappears and with it the "Take a Screen shot..." command in the "start menu") and post the URL to view it. Great idea, thanks. How do I find out what the items in my "Start Menu" have for their cmd lines? > The respawn thing is normal. Nautilus is set to respawn once it is > killed. You can change this by going into the session settings, and > setting Nautilus to something like Normal. Smart programming, Gnome people :-) for people like me that get on the warpath *grin* > > Is nautilus part of Gnome 2.0 or part of metacity?! > Nautilus is a component of GNOME. It _is_ the GNOME 2 desktop. It is > responsible for drawing the icons for Home, Start Here, Trash, etc. > Metacity is simply a window manager; like twm, afterstep, blackbox, > etc. It is responsible for drawing the window decorations (title bars, > window handles, etc.). > Joe Ah ha, I don't really like this in that case... It seems like there is a "Microsoft Active Desktop" aspect of Gnome 2 in that case. It must not help that I do things in gnome-terminal such as `rm -rf .Trash` or `rm -rf ~/.gnome-desktop/Trash` just because I am anti-trash. Also, a related question - are file managers related to the GUI (kde, gnome etc), the windows manager (metacity, sawfish, fvwm95, fvwm etc) or just third party apps that can be MIME-linked? I would really like to find one that is most like Windows Explorer (on the left hand insert) and like ACDSee32 on the right-hand icon area :) :) (: > > Crashing Win98SR1 was easy enough using IE and Outlook but today I saved a > > page as complete from Mozilla 5.0 and it crashed the X11 environment!! > > Should I be proud? > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc I guess I am kind of proud - I keep the developers in business sort of. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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