Numerous problems with Ximian/Helix Gnome on RH 7.0

[Joshua Rigler <Jrigler colorado edu>]

Has anyone else been having problems with the latest Ximian/Helix Gnome
suite on RedHat 7.0?  I posted one problem already where child windows
(IDL plot windows) didn't get focused unless one actually clicked the
title bar, or tried to resize the window.

In addition, twice today I had to restart X because all of a sudden I
couldn't get menus to pull down on various X windows (i.e. I click on
the file menu, it highlights, but the menu never drops down).  Actually
this problem seemed to crop up shortly after I test-drove the newest
version of Mozilla.

Is this a buggy release?  Should I try to go back to the Gnome
distributed with RedHat, or is it possible the default settings for RH's
gnome configuration are significantly different than the default
configuration that comes with Ximian, and I'm just not familiar enough
with configuring Gnome to fix this problem?

-EJR