On Die, 2003-01-07 at 08:16, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > 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.
Does starting gnome-settings-daemon help? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
