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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:11 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome lower panel issue
Message-ID:  <1138770011.816.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <d5eb95fc0601311635p6d5be50cx9f0ba880eee8ef15@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:35 -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> New subscriber but I did a search for this issue and came up blank.  I
> recently posted this on questions:
> 
> 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 After many weird issue on out of date dependancies, I used the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.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue about what I need to redo to get the lower panel
> working?  I have considered scrapping 2.12 and going to 2.10 instead (from
> install CD), but that seems a bit extreme, I am hoping there is a quick fix
> for this.

Just create a new panel with Bottom orientation at 24 pixels.  then add
the applets you want.

Joe

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