Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:30:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x.org discussion Message-ID: <20040701062739.L7239@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <1088654091.93277.35.camel@zircon> References: <40E3176E.40903@imagescape.com> <1088632355.93277.4.camel@zircon> <1088654091.93277.35.camel@zircon>
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Joe Kelsey wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 14:52, Joe Kelsey wrote: >> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:41, Punahele Tannehill wrote: >>> Having just scampered through a thread on questions@, I'm curious about people's >>> opinions and experiences are with X.org system as compared to XFree86. >>> Especially in terms of how it may or not affect future development of Gnome. >> >> I just replaced XFree86 with X.org. It took quite a bit of work, even >> with the meta-port. I had major trouble with the meta-port due to >> poorly=specified prerequisites and inability of portinstall to operate >> on it. >> >> Since upgrading, several panel applets no longer work. The WindowList >> and WorkspaceSwitcher applets no longer start up, instead giving some >> sort of incomprehensible OAFID error which I have no idea how to fix. >> This causes much frustration, as I rely on the Window List applet to >> recover iconified applications, such as evolution. Therefore, I can no >> longer iconify anything, leading to much frustration in my daily work. >> >> I assume that if I can ever solve the WindowList applet problem, then I >> see no problem with X.org. > > In answer to my own question, while trying to rebuild gnomepanel, it > turns out that libwnck references the no-longer-existant libXRes.so, so > I need to rebuild libwnck before rebuilding gnomepanel. > > I cannot find any error in any error log which tells me that the reason > the window-list applet cannot start results from a loader error. What > else might I find that doesn't work now that I have switched to X.org? > I really do not want to do a portupgrade -fr pkgconfig, but maybe I need > to? Yes, I had these problems with applets, too. They went away after a big portupgrade. Uli. > > /Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+
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