gnome headache

[Rolando Roman <landie concentric net>]

eager to get gnome running but still encounter this probelm when i  run panel
landy@butrus:~ > panel
Unable to connect to server port 35091
Segmentation fault         











On Wed, 12 May 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to convert a program to use gnome-app.  Currently I'm running into
>a problem: the program (an AIM client) displays a login prompt where the user
>enters his/her username and password in its main window.  When the user logs in,
>the login dialog is removed from the window and replaced with the list of
>contacts.  Previously, there was no logic to set the size of the contact list
>correctly because it just happened that the login dialog was a good size for
>the contact list.  However, I've made some modifications to the login dialog
>that basically changed it from being tall and thin to being short and fat.
>Is there *any* way to convince gnome-app to change its size when the client
>area size changes?  I've tried gtk_widget_set_usize on every widget I can
>find, gtk_widget_queue_resize on the same; I've tried manually changing the
>dock's client widget, calling gtk_widget_resize_children on various containers,
>setting the app's contents to be a vbox and removing/adding things from that,
>and finally combinations of the above.  Nothing works.  Is there any way
>to hack around this problem?  I'd rather not have to pop up a second window
>for the online list--that's how the program originally worked and we modified
>it to use a single window to avoid a situation where windows were sliding in all
>over the place..
>
>  Daniel
>-- 
>Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
>way.  This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
>complaining.
>		-- Jeff Raskin
>
>
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