RE: Weird Flashing Behavior

["Gaspar, Al" <gasparedw lrn va gov>]

Removing the ~/.gnome directory did not change the behavior.  The gmc pid
keeps changing as everything dies and restarts; so killing it is kind of
difficult...  I guess I'll see if I can upgrade the rpm...  Thanks for your
help.

Cheers--

Al Gaspar
mailto:gasparedw@lrn.va.gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben FrantzDale [mailto:frantb@rpi.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 1:34 PM
> To: Gaspar, Al; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Weird Flashing Behavior
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gaspar, Al <gasparedw@lrn.va.gov>
> To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 9:33 AM
> Subject: Weird Flashing Behavior
> 
> 
> >     I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on an Intel box and began using
> > Gnome.  It has been running fine for several weeks.  Now, I 
> am getting a
> > very odd behavior.
> >
> >      When I log into gnome, white cutouts of my icons 
> appear where the
> > icons would normally be on the left side of my screen and a midnight
> > commander window opens up in my home directory,  then they all
> > disappear, and then they appear again.  It just keeps cycling like
> > that.  The icons never fully appear nor does the midnight commander
> > window stay up long enough to be used.  The bottom menu bar 
> appears fine
> > (though it indicates the midnight commander window opening and
> > closing...).  I can start other things which work, but 
> needless to say,
> > it is very aggravating.
> >
> >      I do not get this behavior if I log in using KDE or if 
> I log in as
> > root.  I have tried logging in holding down <CTRL><SHIFT> 
> and resetting
> > everything.  It doesn't help.  I'd appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> You could try removing your ~/.gnome directory (which would 
> loose all of
> your gnome settings). That should give you a default setup 
> that you can work
> from. If you want to figure out what's going wrong you might 
> try killing gmc
> and seeing if things calm down.
> 
> --Ben
>