On 09/16/2009 09:22 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> On 09/11/2009 02:16 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> >>> I also have an issue with the desktop icons; Computer and Trash do not >>> work. 'Could not display "computer:///". The file is of an unknown >>> type'. In the past, this has been due to glib modules dir, but that is >>> not the case as gnome-vfs has been fixed to install in /usr (based on >>> the gio-2.0.pc file (glib)) for some time. GIO_EXTRA_MODULES has no >>> effect. I'm honestly not sure what is up with that. >>> >>> >> Same for the network icon (after configuring it to show in gconf). I >> understand FUSE is now required for that functionality. Got it built >> into the kernel. >> >> root [ /home/dj ]# cat /boot/config-2.6.30.2 | grep FUSE >> CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y >> root [ /home/dj ]# exit >> >> Wondering if that also has to do with lack of consolekit.....anyway, >> it's on the way in for the shutdown issue. >> >> Nope..that wasn't it. > DJ, > Are you going to start on consolekit? Because I was thinking of doing it. >
No, no, please have at. DeviceKit will also have to go in as well for gnome-power-management. I'm just trying to get a working desktop out of it and to get a partial understanding of how gnome internals all work together. Sorry I can't be of more help. > With the icon problem and the gdm greeter, I did a quick experiment by > installing gnome with just --prefix=/usr and no other configure > (directory)options, and lo and behold all the icons were there on the > gdm greeter including a desktop background! I'm guessing the problem is > that some gnome packages assume that other gnome packages use the same > libexec directory. > A case in point is that gdm expects ck-get* (consolekit binary) to be in > /usr/lib/gdm. > Unfortunately, it seems that there are a few bad assumptions in the Gnome autoscripts that didn't used to be there, and these should all be fixed upstream, preferably via pkg-config. I take it that you are not seeing the (suspected) GIO issue mentioned above? -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
