Re: Crashy crashy

[Michael Perry <mperry basin com>]

On 26 Mar, Gary Hodges wrote:
> 
> I'm very new to the gnome/enlightenment game, but I like what I "see" so
> far.  However, one or the other, or a combination of the two sure seem to
> crash/hang a lot.  I copied all the files from <ftp.gnome.org> three days
> ago, so I'm pretty sure I'm up to date.  Some examples:
> 
> 1.  The file manager has died several times while moving files/directories
> around.
> 
> 2.  Several of the games die after a short time of playing.
> 
> 3.  The entire desktop has completely hung on 3-4 occasions.
> 
> For the past couple of years, I've used RH Linux with fvwm2 as my WM
> without any crashes or hangs.  I really like the gnome/enlightenment look
> and feel and will likely stick with it regardless.  I'm just hoping that
> what I'm experiencing are just minor bugs that need to be worked out.  Is
> my experience typical?
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
My own experience has been that the file manager will sometimes go
south but I have compiled the latest sources and the problems I seem to
have had are lessening.  As far as window managers, I use windowmaker
that I built myself with gnome support enabled and launch it with the
gnome-session command.  My system, running this particular combination
has now been up 6 days with gnome and wmaker running all the time.

At the 99.8 level I did see some crashes where the desktop disappeared
and was replaced with nothing or windowmaker tried to fallback to icewm
which does not exist here.
-- 
Michael Perry
mperry@basin.com
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