Re: GTop core dump... GWP... GDM X authority settings...

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Peter Hawkins <dph-man@iname.com> writes:

> Hi there...
> 
> 1) Running GTop, I changed the process view font to 'Clean' at 12 point.
> GDM core dumped.

Can reproduce that bug - will fix it before I make the next tarball.

Martin


> 
> Backtrace:
> #0  0x4037de74 in g_cache_remove ()
> #1  0x401919ae in gtk_gc_release ()
> #2  0x401df2f8 in gtk_style_detach ()
> #3  0x40210867 in gtk_widget_set_style_internal ()
> #4  0x402100f6 in gtk_widget_set_style ()
> #5  0x80547b7 in procview_properties_update ()
> #6  0x40080bd2 in gnome_property_object_update ()
> #7  0x40080ab6 in _property_object_action ()
> #8  0x40080b48 in gnome_property_object_list_walk ()
> #9  0x805ee67 in gtop_properties_apply ()
> #10 0x4007fd35 in gnome_property_box_marshal_signal ()
> #11 0x401d9da8 in gtk_handlers_run ()
> #12 0x401d91e3 in gtk_signal_real_emit ()
> #13 0x401d7151 in gtk_signal_emit ()
> 
> 2) With a CVS GWP and gnome-print, I get zillions of font warning
> messages every time that I type something in gwp. Are people going to be
> concentrating a lot more on gwp once 1.0 comes out? The thing gnome
> really needs IMHO to make it extremely cool as opposed to just cool is a
> decent word processor.
> 
> 2) Are there any docs on how to installed GNOME? There should be. As an
> experiment yesterday, I downloaded the complete set of 0.99.8 RPMs, and
> reinstalled from scratch. Having performed a rpm-ihv *.rpm, I ran into
> the problem that there is no obvious documentation about installation
> (not on the gnome website certainly).
> Questions that I ran into (which I know the answer to, but need to be
> answered in documentation):
> * How do I start gnome? Using gdm in inittab? Using gnome-session in my
> .xinitrc? Or do  I just run panel and friends when I want them?
> * Why isn't gdm configured by default to use GNOME? The configuration
> file in the RPM does not do this...
> 
> Question that I'd like to know the answer:
> * Starting GNOME with gdm... Gdm appears to set up some kind of
> Xauthority authentification. So I regularly get whinging messages about
> X clients having access denied. This is all on my local machine. What's
> up with gdm?
> 
> 
>:-)
> Peter
> 
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