Re: Gnome startup questions...

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Greg,

Greg Kurtzer wrote:

> I built Gnome from source, and I have noticed 2 things not working quite
> right.
>
> First is that the xscreensaver daemon is not starting when a user logs in. If
> you bring up the control center and screensaver properties, it complains that
> it is not running, then starts it.
>
> Second is that startup-notification also does not appear to be working.
>
> Maybe the *-devel packages were not installed when I compiled somethings. Any 
> ideas would be appreciated.
>
> The system is running cAos BETA1 and Gnome-2.4.0.
If you are running  "Debian-unstable",  please try follows;
(It works for me)

1) Change   /etc/apt/sources.list   all settings to 'unstable"

2) Run
- dselect update
- dselect select
(I did not select any item only press 'Q' to exit)
- dselect install
(anwsering a few simple questions.  It took about 25 min to complete in 
my case)

3) Reboot your PC
Then you will have GNOME 2.4 running on you PC.

HTH


Now I have GNOME 2.4 running smoothly but KDE 3.1 died (previously it 
was vice vesa)  It looks a little bid funny to me.  What made me 
rendering into this problem is as follows;

I ran follows again.
- dselect update
- dselect install
skipping 'dselect select' becuase I don't want to make new selection.  
Now I am still searching for a solution.

Maybe I have to run
- dselect update
- dselect select
- dselect install

B.R.
Stephen Liu