Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2007, 05:54 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson:
> On 6/5/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > when I start x there is a short panel at the top with no buttons at all.
> > Cursor movements are twice as fast as usual and acceleration it too
> > high. A window pops up saying: can't load default theme, either metacity
> > not installed or gconf misconfigured.
> > metacity is installed.
> > after adding menus to the panel and logging out and in again the empty
> > panel is shown again and the warning pops up again.
> 
> How are you starting gnome? gdm? startx? Need some more details about
> the startup. This sounds like gnome-settings-daemon isn't running.
> Normally, this should be started by gnome-session. Or possibly that
> dbus isn't running. I'd highly recommend dbus because there are a lot
> of gnome-2.18 apps that want to use it.
> 
> Assuming you have dbus (and the system bus is running), this should
> work from startx:
> 
> dbus-launch gnome-session
> 
> I'd suggest you start the debugging there. Maybe you can see some
> output on the console.

I installed dbus 0.70
my gnome was installed in /usr just the sysconfig was changed
to /etc/gnome/
I have /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.service
I start with startx with the command 
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

Olaf

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