Re: Gnome on SunBlade 100

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Ritenour, Steven wrote:

> Hi All,
>   I just installed Gnome 2.0 (Sun's beta release) on my SunBlade 100 running
> Solaris 8.  My machine has 2 heads on it and I understand 2.0 supports multiple
> monitors, but I'm only getting one to come up.  The 2nd one appears to be half
> working as I can drag my mouse pointer to it, but the screen is blank and
> doesn't respond to any mouse clicks.
The multihead support didn't make it into GTK+ 2.0, and instead has been 
retargetted for GTK+ 2.2 (which is basically just 2.0 plus multihead and 
a few fixes; it is already nearing maturity).  Multihead support is 
targetted at GNOME 2.2 at the moment (which will include GTK+ 2.2), but 
it is likely that some distributors (such as Sun) may distribute 
versions of gnome that include gtk+ 2.2 and some gnome 2.2 components 
(such as panel and nautilus multihead features).

Until then, I suppose you could manually start apps on the second head 
by adding "--display :0.1" or something similar to some launchers on the 
panel, in order to starts apps on the second head.

>  A second problem I have is logging on to
> my workstation as root, under CDE I have no problems, but Gnome just kicks me
> off and redisplays the logon screen.  Any assistance on either of these issue
> will be greatly appreciated.
>  
I am not sure about this one.  You probably shouldn't be logging in as 
root anyway (use su when you want to do something as root).

James.

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