[Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

Thu Jun 9 12:35:14 CEST 2011

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:15:12 +0200, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> 2011/6/9 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
+> > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:49:18 +0100, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> >
+> >> 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 09/06/11 10:25 did gyre and gimble:
+> >> > 2011/6/9 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
+> >> >>
+> >> >> No need, Cauldron is Cauldron. The only strange thing is that I had
+> >> >> heard on other threads that update to Gnome 3 was being discussed,
+> >> >> but never realized it had finally agreed on.
+> >> >
+> >> > Same here, I'm a bit surprised.
+> >>
+> >> We're on the next cycle now. Quite frankly I'd be stunned (and hugely
+> >> disappointed) if we *didn't* have Gnome 3!
+> >>
+> >> Providing a Gnome2 environment or not is likely the point that need
+> >> discussion :D
+> >>
+> > +1
+> >
+> > One question:
+> >
+> > xps:/etc/X11/wmsession.d# ll
+> > total 16
+> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 2011.06.08 11:00 02GNOME
+> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 2011.03.25 00:36 06Xfce
+> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177 2011.06.08 11:31 11GNOME3
+> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 2011.02.07 22:12 29drak3d
+> > xps:/etc/X11/wmsession.d# rpm -qf *
+> > gnome-session-3.0.1-1.mga2
+> > xfce-utils-4.8.1-5.mga1
+> > gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.mga2
+> > drak3d-1.30-1.mga1
+> >
+> > What is the difference between bot gnomes ? IE, gnome-session and
+> > gnome-shell-session ?
+> >
+> > Now we don't have gnome 2 (gnome 3 uninstalled almost everything), so ?
+> 
+> can you do a rpm -qf for  02GNOME please ?
+
+xps:/etc/X11/wmsession.d# ll
+total 16
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 2011.06.08 11:00 02GNOME
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 2011.03.25 00:36 06Xfce
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177 2011.06.08 11:31 11GNOME3
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 2011.02.07 22:12 29drak3d
+xps:/etc/X11/wmsession.d# rpm -qf *
+gnome-session-3.0.1-1.mga2   <=====================
+xfce-utils-4.8.1-5.mga1
+gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.mga2
+drak3d-1.30-1.mga1
+
+But, if you look at it:
+
+xps:/etc/X11/wmsession.d# cat 11*
+NAME=GNOME 3
+ICON=gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png
+DESC=GNOME Environment
+EXEC=/usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-session
+SCRIPT:
+exec /usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-session
+xps:/etc/X11/wmsession.d# cat /usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-session
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Script to start a GNOME session in a GNOME 3 preview mode.
+#
+
+if test -n "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS"; then
+    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome-shell/xdg-override:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
+else
+    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome-shell/xdg-override:/etc/xdg
+fi
+
+exec /usr/bin/startgnome $*
+
+It looks like the session file in gnome-shell-3.0.2 is just for testing,
+the good one seems to be that in gnome-session (INMHO...).
+Probably you need to kill 11GNOME, and in a future if we have it add a
+"GNOME2" or "GNOME Simple" or the like...
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \                 Winter is coming...
+