Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 02:51:31 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: dolgan@linuxfan.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome compliance? Message-ID: <20000629025131.A539@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <395A8837.1F934639@home.com>; from dolgan2k@home.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:21:24AM -0400 References: <395A8837.1F934639@home.com>
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Hmm... I've been using the latest sawfish and gnome for some time now (5.0-CURRENT) and it has been working fine. I am even using the development releases of XFree864. I have been using netscape4, netscape6, mozilla... the works. It seems to be fine, except for that pesky console switch thing that locks up the mouse when I switch to the console. Dolgan had the audacity to say: > OK, this problem got a whole lot weirder, but a whole lot brighter. > > I noticed that Netscape kept crashing whenever I went to a site (It > still does - but there's always > Mozilla and right now, I want GNOME working. One problem at a time, > right?), so I installed > Netscape 3 for experiment's sake. > > Suddenly, I restarted X, and sawfish was "gnome compliant" and Gnome was > zippy. That makes me > think that sawfish's compliancy is causing Gnome to be sluggish - > somehow. > > Unfortunately, next time I restarted X it went back to crap. > > Does anyone know what could be related to SAWFISH that could be causing > Gnome to not think it's > wm-compliant? > > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dolgan wrote: > ... > : I installed clean from a 6-27-2000 snapshot. That was yesterday. > Wouldn't > : that make the ports updated, or not..? > > Hmm, it should yes. > > : Why would it be a ports thing, though? It's Gnome 1.2.1... latest. Is > there > : something weird with ports? > : Latest sawfish too. > > Yeah, but ports often apply several patches to make things work right on > > FreeBSD, those patches could have been updated without a version upgrade > > of gnome. Given that you installed from a snapshot of yesterday, you > should have the latest ports though. At this point, I'm not sure what > the > problem is.. Maybe someone who runs the combination would have an idea. > > * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * > > -- > Dolgan > icq@14444322 > dolgan@linuxfan.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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