From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 28 9:35:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F2937B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com ([24.6.228.202]) by femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011128173524.MVMX29441.femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com@localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com> for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:35:24 -0800 In-reply-to: <200111281730.fASHUXh28485@blrnd2.bplnet.com>; from santhosh.joseph@bplnet.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:03:15PM +0530 Subject: Re: sysinstall hangs on installing Gnome Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit References: <20011125124950.A8169@hostwiththemost> <200111261450.fAQEoNh09536@blrnd2.bplnet.com> <20011127101831.A837@hostwiththemost> <200111281730.fASHUXh28485@blrnd2.bplnet.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Sean LeBlanc X-mda: Mail::Internet Mail::Sendmail Sendmail +mmhack 1.1 on Linux Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-version: 1.0 User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Content-disposition: inline Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:41:55 -0700 Message-id: <20011128104155.E5421@hostwiththemost> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-28 23:03, Santhosh Joseph wrote: > On Tue 27 Nov 01 22:48, you wrote: > > > I started up a GNOME app, and KDE saved that config when I quit. Now I > > don't know how to stop GNOME toolbars from starting with KDE....it's really > > obnoxious. Then, I changed to GNOME, and tried to change to Enlightenment > > (I installed Enlightenment) instead of twm. When I exited and ran startx, I > > get blank screen with nothing, when I use GNOME. So I'm back to KDE for now > > (with the annoying GNOME toolbars I don't know how to get rid of). > > > > Try renaming .kde directory to say .kde1. Similarly rename .gnome ane > .gnome-private to another name quit X. Set the window manager as KDE as start > X. Once KDE works properly try GNOME. Obviously, you'll have to redo the > configuration of your KDE and GNOME environment. > > As root user, I always faced problems with GNOME-Enlightnment/twm etc. As > normal user it did work without much problems. Thanks. Since I posted that, I did get out the big hammer. :) I didn't have much to reconfigure. Now I'm just wondering how one would do it more delicately than the scorched-earth method. BTW, I'm running as a normal user. Running things as root on a regular basis gives me the willies. -- Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc@home.com Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. -A. R. Orage, "Essays and Aphorisms" Management QOTD:Look, it is our mandate that we follow our noses and analyze progress on the organizational sensitivity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message