On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 08:37, Frédéric Crozat wrote: > Le Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:55:15 +0100, Quel Qun a écrit : > > > On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 06:14, Frédéric Crozat wrote: > >> Le Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:52:06 +0100, Quel Qun a écrit : > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > The desktop background is still not loaded automatically after startx > >> > using gnome and gmc. > >> > > >> > There is surely a way to specify the bg in a config file, but I > >> > cannot figure it out. > >> > >> Try removing your ~/.gnome/session, bg-applet is probably not called by > >> initiating gnome session, therefore not setting background.. > >> > > Ok, I tried a few things here: > > > > I added > > > > rm -f $HOME/.gnome/session* > > > > as the first line of .xinitrc. For the sake of completness, this is > > followed by: > > > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = Super_R Multi_key' startgnome > > > > As long as I log out of gnome after closing everything, the bg is > > reloaded when I run startx again. > > > > However, if I logout of gnome leaving an app running, the app is not > > restarted and the bg is gone. > > > > There used to be a decent session management with gnome+gmc... > > You didn't undertood what I said to you : > > You just need to remove your ~/.gnome/session one time (you probably had > a bad saved session).. > > If you want to save session, just go to Configuration/Gnome/Save current > session and that should do the trick.. > I am sorry, but I think you don't understand what I have been saying for months. The session file may not even be the cause of the problem at all.
Removed the first line of .xinitrc and just tried it again. rm -f $HOME/.gnome/session startx The bg is loaded. Menu Configuration/Gnome/Save current session. Wait few seconds. Logout with the menu function. Back to console, startx, the bg is gone. An error message in console says: capplet-common-CRITICAL **: Cannot open configuration database archive:user-archive#archiverdb:background-properties If I fire up a terminal and run background-properties-capplet --apply, the bg is applied with no error message. After a Google search with the error message, I found this thread on Ximian: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/users/2001-December/000967.html I changed the owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix back to root:root (it was indeed changed to user:user), but it does not change the problem. Most of the time, the bg is not loaded. $ ll -A /tmp | grep ICE drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 0 Mar 16 18:16 .ICE-unix/ $ rpm -q gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-1.5.11-10mdk =--= kk1
