Re: Gnome 2 III

[Carsten Menke <bootsy52 gmx net>]

is118149 mail udlap mx wrote:
> Well well I 've finally finished with the gnome 2 compilation but ...
>
> 1) Since it, when I run the gnome-terminal, everything appears in black and white ( I mean, when I typed ls before it, the directories were blue ... an so on ).
there is a environment variable called DIRCOLORS which is responsible 
for displaying the kind of colors,
normally the configuration for that is stored under /etc/DIRCOLORS

This works however only if you have the GNU version of ls installed, 
AFAIK *BSD variants do not come with it by default (or at least OpenBSD ).

use "set" or "env" to find out if the DIRCOLORS environment variable is set.

> 2) I have problems with Nautilus ... the right word in spanish is " Pestaņas" ( Since I use gnome in spanish, I don't know the exact word for it )
Sorry, I only know German,English,French, no spanish yet :-)

> 3) Were -forgive me God - the hell can I configure the window manager ( I wnat to use metacity ... )
I have done like this, go to Applications -> Desktop Settings -> 
Advanced -> Session Properties

from there remove and stop the sawfish (or the windowmanager you use) 
process, and "add"  metacity. start metacity, log out and save that
session and re-login in. -> Enjoy.

BTW, good choice to use metacity, as for me sawfish is horribly broken 
in gnome2. metacity works fine, also does not have the dozens of useless 
configuration options and is fast.

> 4) When I run gnome 2, the gnome volume control applet is "invisible " ( when I click on it, it functions, but I can't see any icon )

Sure you have staretd the soundserver ? Check, to see go Applications -> 
Desktop Settings -> Sound
and look if start Sound Server on startup is enabled. Also see if the 
kernel module for your soundcard is loaded, in case of devfs you need to 
 create a symlink from /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/mixer 
/dev/mixer, as esd and volume-mixer applet do not recognize the new 
locations for devfs.

NOTE: Currently I'm writing this message from a Gnome-1.4 installation, 
so all is from Scratch.

Carsten