As above.
Keith ____________ It's not what the eye sees, but that which makes the eye see. The Upanishads
On 2003.04.24 12:20 Keith Watson wrote:
As above.
If I'm right in that Debian 'Sarge' is the same as 'Testing' then it appears to use Gnome 1.4.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On 2003.04.24 13:51, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 2003.04.24 12:20 Keith Watson wrote:
As above.
If I'm right in that Debian 'Sarge' is the same as 'Testing' then it appears to use Gnome 1.4.
Yes, I believe 'sarge' is 'testing' and as far as I can see the version of GNOME is a mix between 1.4, 2.0 and 2.2 but worst of all it is broken. There is some stange problem between nautilus and bonobo which results in nautilus windows appearing repeatedly with no user intervention until all memory is exhuasted, or you type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in desparation.
Unstable seems to have mostly GNOME 2.2 in it so hopefully that will make it's way into sarge before it is released.
Steve.
On Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:30 PM, Steve Fosdick wrote; On 2003.04.24 13:51, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 2003.04.24 12:20 Keith Watson wrote:
As above.
If I'm right in that Debian 'Sarge' is the same as 'Testing' then it appears to use Gnome 1.4.
Yes, I believe 'sarge' is 'testing' and as far as I can see the version of GNOME is a mix between 1.4, 2.0 and 2.2 but worst of all it is broken. There is some strange problem between nautilus and bonobo which results in nautilus windows appearing repeatedly with no user intervention until all memory is exhausted, or you type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in desperation.
Unstable seems to have mostly GNOME 2.2 in it so hopefully that will make it's way into sarge before it is released.
What prompted the question was a reference I came across in a mailing list (while looking for a way of setting the gnome 1.4 background image via a shell script) that talked about a separately available backport of gnome 2 for woody (Debian stable). I'm tempted to give it a try but it occurred that it might be a waste of time if sarge already had gnome 2. Still undecided. I used to be decisive but now... I'm not so sure. :o)
Keith ____________ There is nothing infinite apart from finite things D.T. Suzuki
On 2003.04.25 09:19, Keith Watson wrote:
What prompted the question was a reference I came across in a mailing list (while looking for a way of setting the gnome 1.4 background image via a shell script) that talked about a separately available backport of gnome 2 for woody (Debian stable). I'm tempted to give it a try but it occurred that it might be a waste of time if sarge already had gnome 2. Still undecided. I used to be decisive but now... I'm not so sure. :o)
The version of GNOME in sarge is currently unusable as I discovered at the weekend. The only documented fix to the problem with nautilus and bonobo was to upgrade to the version of nautilus that is currently in unstable and that meant also upgrading most of the other GNOME packages and a few others besides.
I know of two backports of GNOME 2 to woody.
The first one worked well once a file in /etc had been fixed to allow menus to be displayed correctly. Unfortunately this version seems to have disappeared, though I probably have most of the debs in my apt cache which should be enough to install it.
The second one relied on XFree86 4.2 while the version actually shipped with woody is 4.1. I don't know if this means the provider of the backport of GNOME provides XFree86 4.2 too, or if you would have to find that from elsewhere - it wasn't obvious.
HTH, Steve.
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