Re: Problem with the control-center

["Earl Heather" <pheather istar ca>]

Try the following:

./configure --prefix=/opt
make
make install

hope this helps 

-pheather

> > 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...)
>