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Subject: Re: gnome/enlightenment problems From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:56:48 -0800 Well, as long as we're talking about our problems with gnome/enlightenment, I thought I would mention mine. After a few days of hassling around with rpm, I got it running okay, but it looks to me like there are some features missing. For example, if I minimize a window by clicking on the underscore hieroglyphic (third from the right in the upper right corner), I don't see anything appearing on the tool bar. I saw a bunch of people using gnome/enlightenment at LinuxWorld, and I'm pretty sure that minimized apps are supposed to appear as tabs on the task bar at the bottom of the screen. I was wondering if it might have something to do with this little tidbit of information that I stumbled across: [root@latveria Gnome]# rpm -e imlib removing these packages would break dependencies: imlib >= 1.8.1 is needed by ee-0.3.8-1 imlib >= 1.9 is needed by enlightenment-0.15.0-36 Could it be that I broke Electric Eyes by upgrading to imlib 1.9? Electric Eyes is supposed to be pretty tightly integrated with gnome, but I don't know precisely what it does. And as for RPMs, I need to play with them some more to decide what I think about them. In principle, I think they're an improvement over tarballs, but I'm not sure about the execution. (I'm used to SGI's Software Manager under Irix, and it seems to me that that did a better job of managing dependencies in some ways.) ------- Subject: Re: gnome/enlightenment problems From: Ken Witherow <phantoml@frontiernet.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:18:30 -0500 Joe Brenner wrote: > tool bar. I saw a bunch of people using gnome/enlightenment > at LinuxWorld, and I'm pretty sure that minimized apps are > supposed to appear as tabs on the task bar at the bottom of > the screen. add the gnome pager applet > Could it be that I broke Electric Eyes by upgrading to imlib > 1.9? Electric Eyes is supposed to be pretty tightly > integrated with gnome, but I don't know precisely what it > does. electric eyes is merely a graphics viewer. It's not critical. --------- Subject: Re: gnome/enlightenment problems From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:38:10 -0800 Ken Witherow <phantoml@frontiernet.net> wrote: > Joe Brenner wrote: > > tool bar. I saw a bunch of people using gnome/enlightenment > > at LinuxWorld, and I'm pretty sure that minimized apps are > > supposed to appear as tabs on the task bar at the bottom of > > the screen. > > add the gnome pager applet Yeah that did the trick all right. If anyone else is trying to figure this out, do a right click on the taskbar, and then: Add applet -> Utility -> Gnome Pager Personally, I think this should have been on by default. And paging to other virtual desktops really ought to be off by default (it's really disconcerting for a new user to have that "hey, where did everything go?!" experience, just because you tried to shove the mouse cursor out of the way). Subject: Re: gnome/enlightenment problems From: hUnTeR <hunter@esprit.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:04:58 -0500 Joe Brenner wrote: > Personally, I think this should have been on by default. Mine WAS installed by default. Not sure what you did during the install but my "clean" install of gnome running enlightenment comes with the pager by default.