Matt Brubeck wrote:
When I click 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font' on the top left of the top panelAdam Bogacki wrote:after being a long-term satisfied gnome-user I suddenly find thatApplications -> Desktop Preferences -> Font (or) -> Themes (or) -> Sound don't work.Please give more details. What do you mean by "don't work"? Exactly what happens when you try to change these preferences?
a small square appears on the bottom left of the bottom panel saying
'Aa Starting Font'
... sits there for a while ... then disappears. Previously a font config panel would open up
in the center of the screen allowing me to adjust font size and/or select another font.
The same occurs for 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Themes' and
'Applications->Desktop Preferences-> Sound'. The last is not so
important since the ALSA sound modules in 2.6.5 kicked in.
Not that I am aware of.I recently did a number of 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing" [...]Were any packages inadvertently removed by the "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
I had upgraded to kernel 2.6.5 but on second dist-upgrade I could notWas there a reason you were performing the dist-upgrade?
get past a 'Kernel Panic'. I got past this via mkinitrd and tried to fix
any problems via 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing'.
***In fairness, this behaviour predates the 2.6.5 upgrade.
The dist-upgrade may be irrelevant.
For a long time previously, I took font and theme selection for granted.
Adam Bogacki,
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