Hey Matthew, > I'm sorry if this is the wrong list for this - is there a users' list > instead?
This list is fine :-) > Anyhow, I'm trying to get Etoile up and running on my Gentoo linux > machine. I followed the build instructions from your website build both > gnustep and Etoile with clang and everything seemed to work okay. (I > would recommend adding a note at the end of: > > http://etoileos.com/downloads/installtrunk/ > > regarding running the setup.sh script to finish the install - I don't > think that is mentioned anywhere and I only found out about it via > google when I didn't know what to do next). Ok, thanks for the info. > After this, I start Etoile from gdm and it seems to start up without too > much trouble. I have visible the menubar and the dock and the default > wallpaper - so far so good! However, popup windows (like menus etc) will > not actually appear when they should. If I click on the star on the left > end of the menubar, it turns black. I know a menu should appear under > it, but nothing does. If I click there repeatedly very quickly, > occasional glimpses of a menu do appear but disappear again immediately > after. > > The same effect happens if I right-click items in the dock. > > If I build and run an app like SystemPreferences.app, its window appears > correctly its menu titles do appear in the menubar, but again none of > the menus will appear underneath any of them when clicked. > > Finally, if I continue the repeated clicking I mentioned for more than a > few seconds, whole session seems to crash and I need to restart X. Hmm, doesn't sound good :-( > Now, my first suspect is that I'm using the open-source radeon drivers > (xf86-video-ati) - do any of you know of any incompatibilities bewteen > Etoile and these? I just built gnustep-back with the default options, so > I think it's using the cairo backend. Cairo is something I've installed > through an official gentoo package. I've tried it in both opengl and > non-opengl flavours but the effect is the same. > Does anyone have any idea what might help? I'm not very knowledgeable > about UNIX so I'm not sure how to really start debugging this sort of > thing. I'd be very grateful for any assistance as Etoile looks very > exciting! I love the idea of a polished GNUstep-based desktop system on > Linux. Unfortunately the etoile user stuff (wallpaper, dock, top-of-screen menu, etc.) is mostly unmaintained as far as I know. It never really got beyond a basic WM + app switcher + menu bar, so you may find using WindowMaker + GWorkspace more usable right now (although they could use a lot of polish, too.) What I would suggest is: - try deleting your ~/GNUstep directory, to clear any extensions enabled by Etoile's setup.sh script, and see if the graphical problem still occurs in GNUstep applications like SystemPreferences, GWorkspace, etc. - try installing GNUstep from subversion. There has been quite a big change to how windows are drawn since the last release, which might fix the problem you are seeing. Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
