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Dear people,
I'm having a few problems with Gnome, Sawfish and
gdm, which I've just installed. Any help or comments would be greatly
appreciated. If/when I get them fixed, I'll post the
solution.
I'm running SuSE Linux 6.4 on an intel-based
laptop. I've had it for a while and maybe not everything is where it
should be, but everything seems to work. I installed around 45 tarballs
(from a CD coming with the English Linux magazine Linux Format) for Gnome 1.4
(including Sawfish 0.38 and gdm 2.2.0). These all installed OK and I can
get into Gnome (via kdm - see below). However, Gnome and Sawfish exhibit
some strange behaviours, and gdm will not run at all:
*** GNOME/SAWFISH
as root:
- wants middle button mouse clicks instead of left button, e.g. for cursor placement or clicking in dialog boxes (I have a two button mouse, so this is inconvenient). Logging on as user, gnome/sawfish happily accepts left-clicks for these functions. as root and as user:
- some apps are inaccessible from the panel. e.g. Netscape launcher works for root but not for user; Gnome|Programs|Applications|Vim works, but Gnome|Programs|Applications|Emacs doesn't. I've looked in the .desktop files, but I can't see anything amiss. - windows do not raise when focussed. *** GDM
Trying to run gdm gets this response:
gdm_config_parse: can't find the gdm group (gdm). Aborting! Any ideas?
Thank you for your patience.
Yours faithfully
Ivan Uemlianin
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