Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:30:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Greg W <redhat_list@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken X and window managers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910140923560.97672-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991014064902.95802.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi, On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Greg W wrote: > Using 3.3 I have tried just about everything to get X and "a" window > manager to work, not being a FreeBSD expert I have run out of ideas. I > cannot get Gnome to work at all, nor Afterstep with Gnome , I managed > finally after about 3 days to get KDE running, but none of the apps > etc will work (I can get a terminal, and the menu's all operate, whoo > hoo :-) ) , Have you tried NOT running Gnome? Try just running a windown manager (say _just_ AfterStep, no KDE or Gnome junk) and see if that works. I was going to play w/ Gnome for a Daemon News article and I cannot get the thing working at all using the packages - the processes run, but they never actually show up (for instance, starting "panel" starts the process, but it never displays) and there are no error messages at all. I went back to using Window Maker. Since I was planning to anyway, I tried using KDE - it built and displayed just fine (I've tried about 10 of the KDE apps under Window Maker and all work fine - I couldn't get _any_ of the Gnome apps to display). X is not broken on FreeBSD unless you've misconfigured it and I'm convinced my Gnome problems are something funky here as I've built other Gnome apps (like Electric Eyes) previously and they worked. I'm doing this on my hand-me-down machine though which is a P5-100 and low on memory and I'm convinced I just have something screwed up as there are others using Gnome wo/ problems. If you want help, we'll need to know a LOT more information, including symptoms, error messages, how you installed the software, the versions of software you installed, blah blah blah. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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