-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:23:22 +0000 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >Gnome: My problem with gnome is that when I install the packages and > >choose it in the display manager (kdm), I get a garble of > >incompletely drawn windows, and there is repainting whenever I move > >the mouse, which repainting makes the garble worse. This happens on > >a Sarge system that is a clean new installation. I'm puzzled about > >this and about the installation. I thought putting a new ext2fs on > >the root partition would wipe out all old information, but somehow > >old garbage seems to be surviving and poisoning things. But, for > >now, I hope to avoid confronting this issue. > > Hmmm, never seen that problem. How does it look for a "virgin" user? > (You can always create a temporary dummy user just to ake a quick look > and then delete all traces of the user if you don't want to keep it > around.) > > Fiddling with the root partition wouldn't necessarily have any impact > on user configurations, what you need to do is clear out your user's > configuration (~/.gnome*). > > It's also worth checking whether you've installed all the GOMe > packages you need. The easiest way is to install 'gnome'. Which may > bring in a few more packages than you strictly need, but it's easier > to trim down later once you have things working. If you are not using KDE, I would also recommend using GDM instead of KDM. This should improve performance at least a little bit as it will not be loading KDE libraries and such into ram. (Assuming GDM does not exhibit the problems you mention having with a Gnome desktop.) HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFECiSgkpJ43hY3cTURAmAYAJ4sNJOnNDNUZVGy1MdXYHw365zKUgCg0h0i 75uQLyXQWW1IIHffz7l3Qos= =1Fwc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
