Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-12 Thread Andrew G
Gav Ford wrote: I have conky working fine with Lenny and Gnome, I needed to add the following to the .conkyrc: own_window yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar own_window_transparent yes double_buffer yes And comment out: #own_window_type root Which worked fine under

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew G
Thanks to those folk who responded. Much appreciated I was beginning to get paranoid ... :-) Conky is one issue and a rather minor one at that and rates as an annoyance. It may just be that Gnome and Conky don't play nicely together, because trying it out on Fluxbox, Xfce4 and even KDE all is fi

Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew G
Hi list Of late, Gnome has been behaving in unpredictable ways. I am using testing/Squeeze and sometime over the last few weeks, a number of changes have taken place that I am unable to reverse, and I would really appreciate a bit of help from this list if that is not too much trouble. In no ord

Re: Gnome desktop icons for mounted removable drives

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew G
Andrew G wrote: > Gnome used to load icons onto the desktop whenever I would insert a > removable media device (e.g. CD or USB stick, etc.). However, for > whatever reason, this no longer happens. Can someone please advise if > this is a bug with Gnome or something for which a

Gnome desktop icons for mounted removable drives

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew G
Gnome used to load icons onto the desktop whenever I would insert a removable media device (e.g. CD or USB stick, etc.). However, for whatever reason, this no longer happens. Can someone please advise if this is a bug with Gnome or something for which a hack exists? I've searched bug tracker but

Grumbles about GNOME

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew G
Running Testing/Squeeze on a home machine, I have noticed that when the GNOME libraries were recently updated a couple of things began to happen (or rather - stopped happening!). The two issues are, in no particular order of priority: * when additional file systems/ media were connected (e.g. CD,

[SOLVED] Re: Starting Conky at logon in Gnome

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew G
Thanks Ron I don't know if this is *the* way of doing things, but it works: I created a small bash script file to be called at start up. Just adding "conky &" to the session start up didn't work because it would get overwritten by the time Nautillus started up, so after a bit of searching, a scri

Re: xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew G
Thomas Anderson did write: I did the usual synaptic update and upgrade and after I rebooted the X server refuses to start. I'm on Debian stable Lenny. I temporarily changed the "nvidia" string in xorg.conf to "nv" and it works in a low resolution now to write this mail. I've included the synaptic

Starting Conky at logon in Gnome

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew G
Hi list Can someone pls advise which file to edit so that when I log into Gnome, Conky starts automatically. Thanks CL