Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NEN> Running woody with Helix Gnome packages.
Keep in mind that the Helix packages aren't part of Debian. Unstable seems to have had pretty current GNOME packages for a while now. NEN> I use gdm as my display manager, gnome-session as my session NEN> manager, and sawfish as my window manager. For the past week or two NEN> I've had this weird problem: if I log in as a "normal" (non-root) NEN> user, the window manager acts non-gnome compliant - the desktop gmc NEN> icons show up in the task list applet. Startup is painfully slow. I don't get this with an identical setup, but then I'm running the Debian GNOME. YMMV. NEN> Logging in as root "solves" this problem, but I don't view that as a NEN> real solution. It sure looks like a permissions problem, but I don't NEN> know where to start. Well, are any interesting messages printed to your X session log (with xdm, in $HOME/.xsession-errors; with gdm, either there or in $HOME/.gnome-errors, IIRC)? Are you running a GNOME-enabled Sawfish? In Debian-land, at least, the 'sawfish' package doesn't have GNOME support, but the 'sawfish-gnome' package does. NEN> Does this sound familiar? I looked at the BTS for sawfish bugs NEN> (though I think I've decided this isn't a sawfish bug at all). Note that bugs on Helix packages wouldn't/shouldn't be in the Debian BTS. If the same bug was present in the official Debian packages, there might be. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
