Gnome 2.10 (part 2)

96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

AFAIK, just right click the icon, and you should get a context menu that has icon resizing as an option.

Don't know what to tell you about XMMS, though. After reading your post, I checked my Gnome menu and my XMMS launcher has now been removed as well; pisses me off. I too caught the 2.10 stable upgrade, but it's not everything I'd hoped it would be, to put it mildly.

On removing the annoying menu labels, you could try first deleting them entirely by right clicking the top-level label and selecting 'Remove from Panel'. Then all you have to do is right-click your now empty Gnome panel, choose 'Add to Panel', then select 'Main Menu' from the list of choices. This way you'll get the Gnome foot icon (depending on your theme) with all the menu categories in it, rather than the annoying three separate menus.

GroennDemon · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:18 am Post subject:

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

GroennDemon · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

Hi bertaboy,

thanks for your support.

Oh my god, did Gnome change the character encoding

? I was quite content with ISO-8859-15.
Where can I change it?

Where would I set the icon path?

Btw, my Gnome menu now contains a couple of English folders (with a standard folder icon instead of those fancy pixmaps), "Settings" for example.
Is there a way to make them show up as beautiful - and German?

Regards,
Grønn Demon

hoschi · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject:

What is wrong with my network-applet (see image, difficult to describe)?
http://desk.hottemptation.org/network_applet.png

Most time boot Icons are "Non", only if my wireless-nic is sending, the left one is switching to "normal".
Wrong net-config (eth0 is the normal nic, eth1 is the wireless nic, only eth1 is up)?

Psycho_Dad

Hi,

I have a problem after updating to Gnome 2.10. Whenever i try to log into Gnome, the system freezes while displaying the gentoo splashimage (no error messages are shown). I have no problem logging into Gnome as root, so I assume it has got something to do with permissions. The strange thing is this: /dev/null is only read-/writeable by root when the system starts up. If i do a chmod 666 /dev/null, thereby giving all users read/write permissions, Gnome no longer freezes when logging in with a normal user, but instead gives an error message:

"your session only lasted less than 10 seconds.... blah blah.... view details (~/.xsession-errors file)."

xsession-errors contains the following:
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0. Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "stephan"
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
PRNG is not seeded

What is PRNG?

When i do the chmod 666 /dev/null trick, I am able to log into Gnome in failsafe mode. (Without this step, I get a "fatal error" message instead, that doesn't give any specific information regarding the cause of the problem).

Any ideas?

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

GroennDemon · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:24 am Post subject:

Thanks, I'll give it a try (although I think it's already set to German as all other menu items are German).

ats2 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 297

Hi,
I also have a problem after updating gnome-menus :
there is an English 'settings' menu in Applications and Settings while my other menus are in French.
Moreover, the 'delete' context menu has disappered, so that I can't delete this one any longer. How come ?

Then, when I click in this menu : Settings->LookNFeek->Gtk Styles and Fonts, I have an error message saying I have no 'kcmshell' -- what's the fuck ??? Isn't it KDE related ?

Is there a way to switch back ?

GroennDemon · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:00 am Post subject:

Looks like we've got the same problem...

ats2 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 297

Yeah,

I'm thinking about re-emerging gnome-menus with -kde USE flag, just in case...
What do you think ?

GroennDemon · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:09 am Post subject:

I have -kde in my USE flags...

ats2 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 297

You're right : I did it and it changed nothing.

Well, what now ?

Psycho_Dad

In case someone is interested, I found a solution to the problem I described a few posts earlier regarding problems with starting Gnome. It turned out that the problem was in fact due to permission-issues; when I did a chmod 666 /dev/null and chmod 666 /dev/random the problem disappeared and Gnome started up just fine. The problem was caused by udev (which sets permissions on number of files, including /dev/null and /dev/random) not having an up-to-date config-file, which means that it didn't apply the rules specified in the (old) config-files, but instead used some default permissions. I solved the problem by running etc-update and updated all config-files related to udev.

96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

guyr · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

vipernicus · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

I only have access to those when I use gdm.
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guyr · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

Lisje · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:19 pm Post subject:

to be able to shutdown/reboot in gnome (using that logout thingie) you must set your settings in session (desktop>preferences>session) to enable: ask on logout (session options tab)

at least I think it was that what I changed to get it working ... hope it works
greets

chrisbs · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

Ok I admit it I'm a complete noob when it comes to emerge and portage (ok and linux in general but I'm learning). I have tried to use this overlay so I coudl edit the gnome menus, but I cannot figure it out.

I create a /usr/local/portage. expanded the linked file in the quote below. Added the PORTDIR to make.conf. When tried the emerge it downgraded my gnome-menus to 2.10.0. I had 2.10.1 installed. This didn't seem right to me - so I stopped the process and unmerged 2.10.0 and re-emerged 2.10.1

Did I do something wrong to get the gnome-menus 2.10.0 instead of 2.10.1?

I got frustrated last night and installed xfce so I could have the menu structure I wanted (I could edit those menus).

Anyway - this is kind of a rant... but I'm also wondering what I did wrong. I would really like to use gnome 2.10 but I also want to add menu items.

--Chrisbs

GroennDemon · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:

96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

No, setting it to UTF-8 in no way affects your existing settings. Gnome just needs to see "UTF-8" in the xmms.desktop file to be able to properly use it in the menu.

It's just one of the changes the Gnome developers made for Gnome 2.10; a lot of things have transitioned to UTF-8, if you poke around in the files.

guyr · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

GroennDemon · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:23 am Post subject:

Thanks, nightmorph.

russianpirate · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

When i use shutdown or reboot from gnome, it just quits from gnome and goes to gdm, should i add permissions for normal users to read and execute /sbin/shutdown?