Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:28:25 -0800 From: Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome lower panel issue Message-ID: <d5eb95fc0601312328u6050d5d5jab3d07155f631563@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1138770011.816.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <d5eb95fc0601311635p6d5be50cx9f0ba880eee8ef15@mail.gmail.com> <1138770011.816.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 1/31/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > 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 After many weird issue on out of date dependancies, I used the 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 pane= l > > 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 > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQBD4EBbb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkWJAJ955gUSlsxgy0eASRFlqX5SqTCghwCeM4GU > pnmpPKjKlZQUQPLe/UiMKEg=3D > =3D7Wmv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Honestly, I did not know about all the goodies you can have on a panel. Thanks, fixed the issue.
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