[csw-users] GNOME-2.14

[Chris Turkel]

On 9/27/06, Jens Langner <J.Langner at fz-rossendorf.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Chris Turkel schrieb:
>
> > First off, a huge thanks to Ken Mays for getting this working! Thank
> > you!
> >
> > Now some bugs I encountered:
> >
> > Upon logging the splash screen stays on the screen until I click on it.
> >
> > Second, the desktop takes a couple of minutes to appear. Its black,
> > with no icons, until then.
>
> That's already reported:
> http://www.blastwave.org/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0001826
>
> However, Ken currently doesn't seem to have a clue why that happens. But
> for a final release IMHO it is _very_ important to get that fixed.
>
> > Finally, the applications menu is there but there are items listed in
> > it.
>
> You mean, "no items are listed"? That's exactly the reason why you have
> to specify the
>
> export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/csw/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
> export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/csw/etc/xdg
>
> variables in your /etc/dt/config/Xinitrc.CSWdesktop right before the
> gnome-session is started. As soon as you have those variables set, the
> application menu will be fine.
>
> Again: For a final release of GNOME 2.14 the gnome_dtlogin package
> definitly needs to be updated. So is the currently maintainer of it
> "Michael Gernoth" already aware of it? In the meantime I have filed a
> bug item for him on that very issue.
>
> cheers,
> jens
> --


I was going to submit a bug report on it when I saw it on Mantis. I had
installed Gnome_Minimal so I thought that might have been my issue but I'll
recheck those ENV variables.



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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.---Kurt
Vonnegut
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