Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:02 +, Stroller wrote: > On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > >> (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I > >> have > >> customization that will disappear. Again.)

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:02:58 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > >> (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. > >> I have > >> customization that wil

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Make a new user with default .blah files. Does it happen for the new

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. > > For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock > up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to > help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? :(

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 25. Februar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: as Alan wrote killall is your friend. It does not need a pid. pidof can tell you the name of an app. And with strace you can look for yourself where gnome-panel hangs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 25 February 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > Finally, I'd like to just get the PID of gnome panel in a one-liner > to send to kill, if I can't get this fixed. Can anyone volunteer a > "gimme only the PID" one-liner? killall gnome-panel edit 'gnome-panel' as appropriate to make it whateve

[gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Higgins
I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and r