Re: [Nautilus-list] misc

[Frederic BONNARD <frederic bonnard cern ch>]

> > - how to avoid file name completion ? : the problem is that when i type
> >   an location on afs, Nautilus doesn't respond anymore...and then the
> >   system.
> 
> Hoo boy.... The infamous "stat'ing /afs locks system" problem. I really
> think that AFS should time out servers that don't respond (or even
> better, everyone should be required to respond to a stat) really
> quickly, but obviously this isn't feasible. Currently there's no way to
> turn off file name completion. The best solution I could think of would
> be to past in /afs/YOURCELL/ (whatever your cell name is) rather than
> typing it.

no way to tell Nautilus not to try to look into /afs, like Gmc and 
is mc.global file ?

> I think Ian is working on this...
> 
> > - Nautilus sometimes crashes unexpectedly :
> >     "Gdk-ERROR **: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)
> >      serial 107080 error_code 4 request_code 2 minor_code 0
> >      ** WARNING **: 4 scalable icons still left when destroying icon
> > factory"
> 
> What system/distribution are you running on? The only place I have seen
> this is running remotely on a Solaris machine displaying from a Linux
> machine....

currently, i'm running linux redhat 6.1.1 (cern modified), on a PIII 800

> 
> > - Last but not least : my bigest problem : 
> >   if my background is managed by Nautilus, and if I start it to browse
> > the web, i'm sure
> >   to get the "Couldn't display.." message.
> >   The only way I've  found to make it work, is to delete my
> > /tmp/orbit-fred.
> >   The problem is (that I don't know why it works and) that it
> > (logically) crashes some apps. 
> 
> Browsing with Nautilus or Galeon or...?

browsing with Nautilus (web view)