Gnome pager applet misbehaving.

[rmcilhar smart net]

  I just installed GNOME v1.0 on system this weekend and have experienced 
some strange things with the gnomepager_applet. After playing around with
the control center and e-config, I started up the gnomepager_applet and the
Xload on my machine shot up way up. X was eating up about 85% of the cpu time
and the gnomepager_applet was eating up the other 15%. The other wierd thing
is that the pager area in the pager applet is only 2 pixels wide or so. The
pager help button and window tasks are displayed properly but the virtual
desktops are displayed in an area about 2 pixels wide. If I click in the 
small area, the desktop pages, but I can't see where I'm paging to.

  I did an strace of X and gnomepager_applet and I've appended those below.

  One other thing, when I start gnome and enligtenment, I can see the corner
of a window in the upper left hand side of my desktop. If I drag the window
into view, its title bar says "panel" on it. Is this a corner panel? and why
is it way off the desktop? Otherwise, GNOME looks great!

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My System:
Alpha GNU/Linux Redhat v5.1
Linux kernel 2.0.36
GNOME v1.0

------------------ gnomepager_applet strace ------------------
select(1, [0], [0], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [0])
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource tem
porarily unavailable)
select(1, [0], [0], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [0])
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource tem
porarily unavailable)
select(1, [0], [0], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [0])
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource tem
porarily unavailable)
select(1, [0], [0], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [0])
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource tem
porarily unavailable)
select(1, [0], [0], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [0])
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0"..., 2044) = 2044
write(0, "B\0\7\0\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0"..., 2044) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource tem
porarily unavailable)
... this repeats over and over.

----------- X strace output -------
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0\376\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 395508}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 618000}) = 2 (
in [6 12], left {119, 618784})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0\375\377"..., 5908) = 5908
read(6, "L\1\5\0\23\0\200\0\21\0\200\0\5\2"..., 4096) = 116
writev(6, [{"\16\0\33\360\23\0\200\0\0\0>\0\0"..., 32}], 1) = 32
gettimeofday({921031176, 401367}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 612000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 612928})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0\376\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 403321}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 610000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 610000})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0\375\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 405274}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 608000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 608048})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0\376\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 407227}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 606000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 606096})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0\375\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 409180}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 604000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 604144})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0\376\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 411133}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 602000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 602192})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\t\0\0\2\2\0\1\0\375\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 413086}, NULL) = 0
select(128, [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14], NULL, NULL, {119, 600000}) = 1 (
in [12], left {119, 600240})
read(12, "\204\0\0\2\7\0\0\2\2\0\2\0\376\377"..., 5908) = 5908
gettimeofday({921031176, 415039}, NULL) = 0

... this repeats over and over.

Also got this error from enligthenment on the console.

Enlightenment: select() returns due to interrupted system call.