Re: No Task bar or left mouse

["Fred Dunn" <fdunn ix netcom com>]

I had this problem and someone suggested deleting ~/gnome and then
restarting Gnome.  This brought the panel back.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Marin <yurik@ctel.net>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: No Task bar or left mouse


>The mouse works in apps. and thanks Jason that config helps.  I think I
have
>a better grip on the problem now.  In all user profiles enlighten starts
>using "startx" and the backgrong comes up. The thing I'm missing is the
>panel and the file maneger does not start unless I use the center mouse to
>open a menu and start file manager and then run panel. and even with that
>log out does not work. I have to use ctr, alt,home to get out.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jason@whizzird.net <jason@whizzird.net>
>To: Ken Marin <yurik@ctel.net>
>Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
>Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 10:39 PM
>Subject: RE: No Task bar or left mouse
>
>
>>
>>On 23-Apr-99 Ken Marin typed:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running Gnome1.0 on a RH5.2 with a PII233.  It seems to partially
>>> work.  There is no task bar
>>        we call it a 'panel'. how are you running gnome? do you run
>>'gnome-session' or 'panel' in your ~/.xinitrc (or other file)?
>>if not try it. else run an xterm (should be the top choice in the second
>>submenu of your middle click menu) and run 'panel' and output the errors
to
>a
>>file and submit them.
>>> and the left and right mouse buttons dont
>>> work. It is a 3 button Logitech with the center button being a wheel.
>>> It all worked fine in X.  When it first loaded it was only a grey screen
>>> and the center click on the mouse gave a menu to configure but it seems
>>> to be really limited.  The vid card is a Diamond 2000.  Could the mouse
>>> be conflicting?  I tried what was said on the help page ( del. the
>>> sessions  and reinstalling the core) but it looks the same.  Any
>>> pointers would be great. Thanks
>>
>>how do you know the mouse doesn't work? are you talking about clicking on
>the
>>background and nothing happening (nothing should happen, btw)? choose an
>option
>>on that menu (like xterm) with the left and it should work. here's the
>pointer
>>section of my XF86Config file (i use a logitech wheel mouse and RH5.2).
>yours
>>should look like this.
>>
>>Section "Pointer"
>>   Protocol        "IMPS/2"
>>   Device          "/dev/mouse"
>>   Resolution      100
>>   Buttons         5
>>   ZAxisMapping    4 5
>>EndSection
>>
>>the 'Buttons' and 'ZAxisMapping' parts make it use the wheel (but in most
>apps
>>you still need something like imwheel to get it to do anything).
>>
>>>
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>>
>>jason majors
>>jason@whizzird.net
>>http://www.whizzird.net
>>
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