From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 11: 2:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9245237C42C for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dolgan2k@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.11.173.44]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000629180154.HYOH18210.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:01:54 -0700 Message-ID: <395B2CA9.7CF1FF68@home.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:02:01 -0700 From: Dolgan Reply-To: dolgan@linuxfan.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-20000627-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome compliance and speed? References: <4402410.962264016458.JavaMail.imail@puffer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, I don't think this is something that's impossible to fix. Because it was fixed... twice. Every time Netscape core dumps and I go back into X (Netscape crashing kills X), it works *better* than Linux. And it's not only a performance issue. Gnome thinks sawfish isn't gnome-compliant - until Netscape core dumps, then it's fine. So maybe something with some libraries or somesuch. I don't know enough to know what it could be... Rudynell Millian wrote: > Dolgan; > > I understand you're new to FBSD. Welcome aboard. You can uninstall a port > just like you would uninstall a package. Use pkg_delete. Also, you can > update your ports collection with cvsup. Check the handbook for details. > Unless you didn't install the documentation, you should have a copy of the > handbook on your system (/usr/local/share/doc or something like that.) The > bad news is that you need a web browser to read the handbook (html), but you > can always use gnome itself for that. > > I'm having some problems with gnome too. The unfortunate truth is that you > will never get gnome to work as well on FBSD as it does on Linux. The > porting guys do their best, but until there's a commitment from the gnome > folks themselves to be FBSD compatible, you're going to continue to see > annoying problems. The same goes for KDE by the way. For example, I can't > find gdm for FBSD. The last time I used kdm on FBSD it was broken due to > some Linux specific dependencies. The authors of kdm think multiplatform > means supporting Suse and RedHat. > > Good luck, > > Rudy > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:05:41 -0700, Dolgan wrote: > > > I installed it from the ports. > > > > However, that was an unupdated ports. But it was from the ports that I > got > > when I installed 4.0-STABLE. So how old could it be? > > > > I don't know how to update the ports file. You think I should reinstall > from > > a later ports file? Not quite sure how to delete the old Gnome if so. > > > > I installed both from ports, btw. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Matt Heckaman" > > To: "Dolgan" > > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:57 PM > > Subject: Re: Gnome compliance and speed? > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Question: Did you install GNOME/Sawfish from the ports? I do not use > > > sawfish (I'm a windowmaker fan) but I often use various gnome > applications > > > (not to mention compiling gnome (minus panel) support into everything I > > > can. (I really like Gnome) and I've never had a problem with anything > > > here. We have virtually identical machines; Celeron 400 / 128MB / > > > 4.0-STABLE (May 30 2000). Offhand, did you update the ports tree? (see > > > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile) > > > > > > I don't know if that's much help, but we'll see. :) > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > _______________________________________________________ > Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite > Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp -- Dolgan icq@14444322 dolgan@linuxfan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message