Re: Problem with Gnome

[dale chesser <squatex nettaxi com>]

After toying with things for a few days Ive come to belive the problems
with the RPM's are caused entirely by Enlightenment. recompiling
Enlightenment might suffice. Every other WM i use with Gnome works
perfectly - except enlightenment.

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Just a Quick Letter from Chad wrote:

> I have noticed when i was running 1.0.1 and under i had alot of the same
> problems with gnome and when i was using the rpm's i would suggest compiling
> gnome it has seemed to work about 100,000x better and e-0.15.4 works much
> better 0.15.3 had some bugs that effected the panel you should also make
> sure your running the latest components 1.0.5 of gnome-libs and 1.0.3 of
> gnome-core with gtk-1.2.1 that gets rid of the gtk+-1.2.1 nags.
> 
> p.s. thanks for that gtk+1.2.1 url to those who replyed
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: dale chesser <squatex@nettaxi.com>
> To: Tom Deprez <Tom.Deprez@uz.kuleuven.ac.be>
> Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 4:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Problem with Gnome
> 
> 
> >
> >I have had soooo many problems running Gnome with Enlightenment -
> >especialy with core dumps and constant crashes of various kinds. Since I
> >installed window maker gnome has yet to give me any problems.I suggest
> >you try window maker ( www.windowmaker.org ). Made all my problems go away
> >like magic.
> >
> >On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Tom Deprez wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm new to Linux and since yesterday new to Gnome, so forgive me for my
> >> stupid questions.
> >>
> >> I followed the installation instructions at the gnome web-page. And
> >> installing everything went very well, but....
> >>
> >> When I logout (through the panel), mostly of the time, Gnome doesn't
> >> logout's it just freezes. Clicking on the background still gives me
> menus,
> >> but the gnome panel is freezed. Mostly of the time I've reset the PC
> >> because everything is locked. I also see that I get several core-dumps!
> >> Mostly in the directory of .desktop-gnome and sometimes in the home
> directory.
> >>
> >> Has somebody already seen this? Has somebody a solution to this problem?
> >>
> >> This PC is also a 133Mhz. With only 64MbRam. So it's kinda slow. Is there
> a
> >> way to show a clock or something to let the user know the program is
> still
> >> working?
> >> I can see a clock when you change the themes of enlightenment. But not
> when
> >> starting Gnome. And it takes some while...
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Regards, Tom.
> >>
> >>
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