From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 6:51:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F77C1511D for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11Y8VY-000Lv8-00; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:50:28 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08482; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:50:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:50:27 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Tony Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it? In-Reply-To: <99100408410801.37693@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, from what i have heard, gnome has some great aspirations, but a lot of bugs right now. When my friend right-clicks before doing anything else, it crashes unfailingly. And i've had some very frustrating problems with it on linux. That's one of the reasons i switched to freeBSD/windowmaker... stability. jcm On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Tony wrote: |I see many screenshots from the Linux community where people use this glorified |toolbar but from my experience, it's most reliable feature is creating .core |files. | |I've compiled and recompiled this port from the ground up several |different times over the past 9 months and I never can seem to find the |functionality of it. (recompiling the latest port dependancies, reinstalling |etc.) | |I load up a window-manager, start an xterm and type "panel" at which point I |get the main GNOME toolbar. If I try to configure it, it core dumps, if I do |most anything it core dumps. It never wants to switch away from enlightenment |being the default manager etc. | |My question is this: Are any people in the FreeBSD community using the GNOME |port happily? Did I skip a fundamental /home/userdir setup script? | |It's not important that I get it working, I just like to know why things aren't |working as they should. | |Tony | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org |with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message