[gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 questions
Starting a new thread. Was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ? gnome2.4 has been rock solid for me a several weeks now (got it as soon as an ebuild showed up). Have you tried backing off on your CFLAGS (and recompiling)? usually fixes my problems with unstable programs. -chris (graves) I've been experimenting with it, and it seems basically ok - no crap outs yet. Uses a lot fewer resources than kde. I do have a few of questions. 1. When shutting down, gnome 2.4 always produces a dialog box saying (similar words to these) these applications (all of mine are listed) won't restart, you will need to restart them manually. But they lie. Most of them restart, but all crammed onto the first desktop! Is there any way to cause gnome not to restart them, as it promissed? 2. When I right click and select properties for a desktop icon, I'm only allowed to select an icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. Any way to get around this and use icons from other locations? For example, OpenOffice has a suitable icon available, but I can't find any way to use it, so I have to be content with the footprint. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 questions
On 19:15 Fri 17 Oct , Collins Richey wrote: 1. When shutting down, gnome 2.4 always produces a dialog box saying (similar words to these) these applications (all of mine are listed) won't restart, you will need to restart them manually. But they lie. Most of them restart, but all crammed onto the first desktop! Is there any way to cause gnome not to restart them, as it promissed? Close your applications before you log out, and the point is moot. 2. When I right click and select properties for a desktop icon, I'm only allowed to select an icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. Any way to get around this and use icons from other locations? For example, OpenOffice has a suitable icon available, but I can't find any way to use it, so I have to be content with the footprint. You can browse your entire file system from the properties dialog. -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 questions
1. When shutting down, gnome 2.4 always produces a dialog box saying (similar words to these) these applications (all of mine are listed) won't restart, you will need to restart them manually. But they lie. Most of them restart, but all crammed onto the first desktop! Is there any way to cause gnome not to restart them, as it promissed? If I'm thinking of the same dialog box... it's referring to restarting the programs in the same instance as they are closed in (e.g. a browser opens to the homepage instead of the page last open) Using gnome-session you can specified what programs you would like to start when gnome comes up; as well as whether or not to save the last session. Choose not to save last session and gnome will open with only the programs you specify. 2. When I right click and select properties for a desktop icon, I'm only allowed to select an icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. Any way to get around this and use icons from other locations? For example, OpenOffice has a suitable icon available, but I can't find any way to use it, so I have to be content with the footprint. Couldn't say, all the icons I've ever obtained I put in that same directory. -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 questions
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:24:58 -0700 Chris Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. When shutting down, gnome 2.4 always produces a dialog box saying (similar words to these) these applications (all of mine are listed) won't restart, you will need to restart them manually. But they lie. Most of them restart, but all crammed onto the first desktop! Is there any way to cause gnome not to restart them, as it promissed? If I'm thinking of the same dialog box... it's referring to restarting the programs in the same instance as they are closed in (e.g. a browser opens to the homepage instead of the page last open) Using gnome-session you can specified what programs you would like to start when gnome comes up; as well as whether or not to save the last session. Choose not to save last session and gnome will open with only the programs you specify. I've gone to Applications - Desktop Preferences - Advanced - Sessions and unchecked the Automatically save changes to session box, but that has no effect. All sessions are saved, whether I want them or not. Another idea? 2. When I right click and select properties for a desktop icon, I'm only allowed to select an icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. Any way to get around this and use icons from other locations? For example, OpenOffice has a suitable icon available, but I can't find any way to use it, so I have to be content with thefootprint. Couldn't say, all the icons I've ever obtained I put in that same directory. This one solved, thanks to Barry. I just didn'tread the dialog box closely enough. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 questions
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 07:15:43PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: [snip] I do have a few of questions. 1. When shutting down, gnome 2.4 always produces a dialog box saying (similar words to these) these applications (all of mine are listed) won't restart, you will need to restart them manually. But they lie. Most of them restart, but all crammed onto the first desktop! Is there any way to cause gnome not to restart them, as it promissed? I used to get this behavior (without the dialog) because I shut the system down running 'shutdown' from the command line. It went away when I started logging out of Gnome, and invoking shutdown from the menu in GDM. - PK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
