Hi Matthew, hi list, maybe someone on the debian-gtk-gnome mailing list can hit us both with a cluebat? Please? I have quoted Matthew's message almost in its entirety.
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Matthew McGuire wrote: > [...] if I run GNOME 2 apps in Wmaker the default user > configurations don't load for the applications. I have the suspicion > that gnome-session is responsible for this in some weird way. Why? > Well I can run Wmaker and then gmc and get the old gtk+1.4 app to > load its config correctly. Gmc will have the correct theme and font > sizes. I can then load Galeon and it will also load with the correct > theme and font sizes. However when Galeon loads it starts gconfd-2. I > believe this is because gconfd-2 functinally replaces the old gconfd > from GNOME. Logically I should then be able to load the new GNOME > Terminal and it should use the running gconfd-2 to load its config. > Alas it does not. I can force the system to load the settings by > opening any configuration tool in GNOME Control Center 2. Sadly this > also clobbers my desktop background, which is mostly harmless but > annoying. There's a setting somewhere "leave my desktop alone" or "don't set the background" or something like that. > The difference here is the oafd has now called the gnome-settings- > object module thing. (CORBA and bonobo still lose me a bit.) I > managed to figure most of this using pstree -aul and tracking it all > down. I am using wdm as my display manager as well. My (little) understanding of this issue is that GNOME apps start gconfd-2 automatically if it's not running. And I think someone patched some GNOME 1 library in order to start gconfd-2 instead of the old version. > So enough of that. I wanted to know if you ran into the same problem > and if you found any solutions. No, it doesn't ring a bell here. Greetings, Marcelo
