From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 12:44:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fszhtv10.wpafb.af.mil (FSZHTV10.wpafb.af.mil [129.48.198.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D7115403 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Fred.Wilson@wpafb.af.mil) Received: by FSZHTV10.wpafb.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:27:25 -0500 Message-ID: From: Wilson Fred C Civ ASC/LUGE To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: I can only run GNOME as root Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:27:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to have missed something somewhere. I installed the GNOME package + Enlightenment from the 3.4-Release CD-ROM distributed by Walnut Creek. There are two things that don't seem to work. 1. Unless I bring up desktop settings from panel I get the background defined by Enlightenment. It seems to me that the GNOME settings should override the basic settings provided by the window manager (even if I tell E not to use a background). I do get any icons I have placed on the desktop, just not the background. Am I expecting too much or did I miss something? wmG looks like a good start but I would like a little more decoration (like window control buttons that are more than little boxes) so I am using Enlightenment which is overkill. I like the GNOME interface. This is mostly just an inconvenience. 2. The real issue is that if I try to start gmc or panel from my user account I get a message that the application can not set the protection on /root/.gnome_private to 0700 and then the application core dumps. I did a chmod 0777 on .gnome_private to no effect and then did a pkg_delete and removed all of the gnome files in root and then reinstalled everything. Nothing seems to have had much of an effect. I didn't seen anything in what little documentation I have that discusses this. Where did I go wrong? Thank You Fred Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message