From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Re: Long Gnome-session Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:25:05 +0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040113132505.19344da7@skyinet.net> References: <20040112155340.0b7f58a6@skyinet.net> <200401121235.34024.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200401121235.34024.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > On Monday 12 January 2004 08:53, Peter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Among other strange things in RH9.0 is the long time it takes to > > open gnome-session. A full 2.5 minutes. > > > > Is this standard? > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:35:34 +0100 pa3gcu wrote: > No its not, something is wrong, i would check my logs to see if there > are any hints, a possibility is that you have defined a hostname which > is unresolvable. There is nothing in the logs, however, on account of your hint I had a closer look at the console after logging-out and scrolling up it said somehing about /usr/local/bin/metacity. I deleted the file after I found another one in /usr/bin and swoop, gnome-session is now up in 8 seconds. After I had installed RH9.0 I copied my RH7.3 /usr/local directory into the new box not knowing that there was that metacity file in it. > > What is also surprising is that one has to look for a terminal and > > finds it finally as the last item under system tools. > > Well not so suprising as most users today dont even know what a > terminal session is. So Bill Gates has successfully played his part in the further cretinization of mankind. > You can of course add an icon to your pannel or desktop. I am aware of that yet have not used gnome as a desktop since after RH5.2. If I need a panel I just type gnome-panel, formerly just panel, in the terminal or kicker for kde. For the latter one it's nice to see that an icon for a terminal is still prominently placed on the panel. > > > > Is gnome going the way of MSWindows, users of which are mere > > klickers? > > I think you will find that many things are starting to look like > MSwidows for the simple reason thats the way most folks want it to be > but, you as user can change the way it all works that is "UN"like > MSwidows. And for that freedom of choice I do love Linux!! > > > > Luckily there is blackbox and my favored fvwm2. > > Many others as well. > > > > > Regards > > -- > If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they > try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community > is built on organized crime. > > Regards Richard > pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ > > -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs