You're both right! So there! I have the same problem. It is fixed by deleting ~/.gnome/session. So try just doing that, Quel.
But the session save/restore is apparently buggered. Any time I check "Save session" when shutting down Gnome, odds are there's not going to be a background next time I start it. I could just rm .gnome/session every time, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a session save/restore, no? Krum > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quel Qun > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 9:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] no bckgrnd w/ gnome+gmc > > > 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 > > >
