[PLUG] Now I've done it

David Kaplan davek52 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 02:40:14 UTC 2009


Mint 8:
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Smooth as silk. Everything works!

Try it and see.



On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:06:18 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:53:07 -0800
> > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
> > Never mind - Google told me the answer. The command is "yum -y
> groupinstall xfce4."
> >
> > So here I am in an Xfce desktop. Wonder what distro I should try next.
>
> I am here to report that I have been bitten for the fourth time by
> Gnome 2.8.0.
>
> I reformatted and installed OpenSuse 11.2, which uses Gnome 2.8.0. I
> spent yesterday installing and configuring stuff, rebooting
> occasionally. This morning I rebooted and when X came up there was no
> metacity. But this time the Gnome panel did appear. I started metacity
> from the terminal, so I am functional. OpenSuse installs IceWM as well
> as the default metacity, so I can try that, or install Xfce4.
>
> I spent some time yesterday searching on the OpenSuse forums for
> answers to other issues and I stumbled across this thread:
>
> http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/427153-desktop-wont-load.html
>
> I also found quite a few people reporting similar problems on the
> Ubuntu forums, all with Karmic. Karmic uses Gnome 2.8.0.
>
> I'm going to search the Gnome bugtracker next, which I should have done
> earlier. If I don't find a fix (which I think is unlikely), I'm
> probably going to reformat and install OpenSuse 11.1. For sure I am not
> touching any distro-version that uses Gnome 2.8.0.
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