Howdy, * Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020803 14:30]: > Hi: > > I am new to Debian. I have sucessfully install Debian unstable and > Gnome2 (from experimental). I am experiencing the following and I hope > someone from this list would be anle to help or provide a bit more > insight into this. My configuration is as follows:
New to Debian and using experimental! Brave man! > > Debian Unstable > Gnome 2 experimental > Savage video driver > Xfree86 4.2.0 from www.Xfree86.org (upgraded from Xfree86 4.1 from > unstable) > > This is what I am experiencing: > > 1. When I start gnome-session it starts with 'twm' as the window > manager. I want to use Metacity. Unlike Gnome 1.4, Control-panel does > not have the facility for this. How do I force gnome to use Metacity? update-alternatives --config x-window-manager then select metacity > > 2. When I click on the desktop icons (Home, trash, etc) or start > Nautilus, it quits and the desktop icons vanish. I cannot get the menus > or the desktop icons again. I am not sure whats going on. I would like > to send in any log files, but not sure which one. If someone knows > which log file(s) would be necessary to debug this, I can send that in. I think this is just a problem with twm, it should go away, one you've done the update-alternatives. > > 3. When I set GDK_USE_XFT=1 (for anti-aliasing) the server quits on me > and reports: > /usr/bin/gnome-session: relocation-error: > /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_First_Char > > I am using the standard locale - "POSIX" > > I shall post the log file for X as a followup to this email. Sorry I don't know anything about this error, perhaps someone else can help. Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux onefish 2.4.18-lavienx #1 Tue Jun 25 19:07:48 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
