Re: Problem with the control-center

[Nils Holland <nils nightcastleproductions org>]

> SuSE goes for /opt
> Red Hat goes for /usr/share
> Debian and Caldera I'm not sure about.

Ok. I got SuSE on my system and it really seems that the files should
have ended up in /opt but in fact ended up in /usr/share.
What I don't understand: I downloaded the tarballs, configured, built
and installed them. Now, when I do a make install, how does the stuff
know where to put itself? In fact, when I do a make install on the GNOME
control-center, how is it possible that the files do not end up at the
location where the control-center looks for them when I start it? I
thought, since I downloaded the tarballs and no pre-compiled packages,
that the actual installation process should be independant from which
Linux-distribution I use.

Whatever, I now copied the files to where the control-center looks for
them and I can start the control center! Unluckily, I cannot change
anything. As far as I'm concerned, on the left side of the
control-center I can select what I want to change and on the right side
I can actually change the settings. Unluckily, no matte what I select on
the left side, the right side stays grey all the time. And, oh yes, on
whatever option I click on the left side, my XMEssages window says
"Unable to reach control-center, exiting!"

I currently don't know why that happens but I will try to find out. If
anyone knows what I could do, please tell me!!! If nobody can help me, I
will tell you what I did to make it works - if I can get it working, but
I'm pretty sure I will (sooner or later...)

See ya,
Nils