Gnome 2.24

vik · 2008-10-23 07:17:21

2.24 was the smoothest upgrade I've had. Didn't even know it was available until I pacman -Syu and saw about 300MB of gnome/openoffice packages listed, hehe.

It actually fixed a problem I was having with two displays. Gnome would crash upon login when I set up separate x screens on my laptop screen and external display. I think it might have something to do with gnome-panel. At any rate, after upgrading, no crashing and I am easily running two x screens on each display.

moljac024 · 2008-10-23 10:23:34

I've had about 500MB of gnome/openoffice to download. I still don't know how it was 500MB, looking at the individual packages...

shijtin · 2008-10-23 11:45:17

Andy Mack wrote:

I noticed Gedit takes about 15/20 seconds to open

Disabling the file browser plugin in gedit might help.

rps63ifid · 2008-10-23 12:49:32

I've checked a couple of times over the past day or two, and I'm not sure why but GNOME 2.24 isn't showing up in the repos for me...

Running 'pacman -Syuv' shows:

Root : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File : /var/log/pacman.log
Targets : None
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date

Is it just a matter of the mirrors being slow in being updated, or something more fundamental?

Thanks for any help you might offer...

--
/ron

Nepherte · 2008-10-23 12:53:27

moljac024 wrote:

mintcoffee wrote:
The only bug I've encountered was gnome-screensaver reverting back to the default leaf background in /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg.
Yes, I'm also having this. Interested in how to solve it.

From what I've read, the bug has been reported but not taken care yet.

It's not an elegant solution, rather a tempory one but it has the wanted effect:

Backup the default bg:

sudo mv /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg_backup

Symlink to your current background:

 sudo ln -s /path/to/your/current/background /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg

wonder · 2008-10-23 13:23:46

rps63ifid wrote:

I've checked a couple of times over the past day or two, and I'm not sure why but GNOME 2.24 isn't showing up in the repos for me...
Running 'pacman -Syuv' shows:
Root : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File : /var/log/pacman.log
Targets : None
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date
Is it just a matter of the mirrors being slow in being updated, or something more fundamental?
Thanks for any help you might offer...
--
/ron

do pacman -Syyu
notice double y

moljac024 · 2008-10-23 14:49:26

Nepherte wrote:

moljac024 wrote:
mintcoffee wrote:
The only bug I've encountered was gnome-screensaver reverting back to the default leaf background in /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg.
Yes, I'm also having this. Interested in how to solve it.
From what I've read, the bug has been reported but not taken care yet.
It's not an elegant solution, rather a tempory one but it has the wanted effect:
Backup the default bg:
sudo mv /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg_backup
Symlink to your current background:
 sudo ln -s /path/to/your/current/background /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg

I set my background with nitrogen, but I change backgrounds fairly often. So I just backed up the default background and replaced it with an all black image

Gaim · 2008-10-23 15:53:41

Gnome 2.24 is great! Now this desktop environment is much better than others, I think. Splash is not late any more! ;-)

Diaz · 2008-10-23 16:29:51

i updated, and from what i can see, metacity crashed when enabling/disabling the option of sound themes, and the gnome-power-manager now lacks the option to set cpu scaling mode. And another one, in the menu applet, the one that has "Aplications" + "PLaces" + "System", the bookmarks in the Places menu, but only the bookmarks don't get the icon theme option, they set to default theme. They were good with the same theme before update. Trying with Tango and Gnome-Brave themes. Suprisingly the Oxygen theme actually sets everything fine, and i though that it wasn't compatible with gnome specification...

mrunion · 2008-10-23 16:35:55

I;ve noticed that some of the icons seem to have been "renamed" when they look for theme icons. Appearance on the System -> preferences was one. So was the File Manager one.

pjjanak · 2008-10-23 18:36:33

Diaz wrote:

...and the gnome-power-manager now lacks the option to set cpu scaling mode...

Ditto here. It seems they removed the schema from Gconf, as well for cpufreq stuff. This might be a problem with the cpufreq stuff not having been updated for 2.24 and might be a "bug" that should be filed upstream with the cpufreq people.

Peter

Mr Green · 2008-10-23 19:17:37

2.24 is sweet :-)

Bestiapeluda · 2008-10-23 20:40:06

Ditto here. It seems they removed the schema from Gconf, as well for cpufreq stuff. This might be a problem with the cpufreq stuff not having been updated for 2.24 and might be a "bug" that should be filed upstream with the cpufreq people.

I dont think the cpufreq people are here to do what gnome wants. Its gnome who has to adapt. There are other DE´s you know...

toorima · 2008-10-23 23:37:26

Rokixz wrote:

Do the awn work for somebody?
I'm getting this message:

avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libgnome-desktop-2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

a dirty quick fix would be
ln -s /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.7 /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2
while waiting for bug to be fixed.

pjjanak · 2008-10-24 02:09:31

Bestiapeluda wrote:

Ditto here. It seems they removed the schema from Gconf, as well for cpufreq stuff. This might be a problem with the cpufreq stuff not having been updated for 2.24 and might be a "bug" that should be filed upstream with the cpufreq people.
I dont think the cpufreq people are here to do what gnome wants. Its gnome who has to adapt. There are other DE´s you know...

Quite defensive there...perhaps your right. Apologies.

Peter

shiki · 2008-10-24 05:31:28

Gnome 2.24 with Gnome-sys-monitor + latest banshee causes massive lockup. I don't know if it is reproductible, it killed the whole Arch sys here 2-3 times in a row. So ... please be careful. (Sound dies, then cpu load drops to 0%, and IOwait goes up to 100%).. I know these things could be the fault of anything else, but if I just don't use them, everything works. (Sorry if this bug only exists 'here').

smakked · 2008-10-24 05:39:32

shiki wrote:

Gnome 2.24 with Gnome-sys-monitor + latest banshee causes massive lockup. I don't know if it is reproductible, it killed the whole Arch sys here 2-3 times in a row. So ... please be careful. (Sound dies, then cpu load drops to 0%, and IOwait goes up to 100%).. I know these things could be the fault of anything else, but if I just don't use them, everything works. (Sorry if this bug only exists 'here').

Im using latest banshee without issue here, you on 64bit or 32bit?

jordz · 2008-10-24 06:27:43

toorima wrote:

Rokixz wrote:
Do the awn work for somebody?
I'm getting this message:
avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libgnome-desktop-2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
a dirty quick fix would be
ln -s /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.7 /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2
while waiting for bug to be fixed.

You will get killed by some people if you do that
Just recompile so it links to the new libs

nyde · 2008-10-24 11:13:54

i updated, and from what i can see, metacity crashed when enabling/disabling the option of sound themes

I've noticed this problem as well. I also notice that the busy cursor takes a while to go away once logged in, I'm not sure of the cause.

Overall though the upgrade to 2.24 was far smoother than the one to 2.22 for me. It does feel snappier too.

Gaim · 2008-10-24 11:45:47

Did anybody have noticed a problem with Openbox/Gnome session?=S

rps63ifid · 2008-10-24 12:26:25

wonder wrote:

rps63ifid wrote:
I've checked a couple of times over the past day or two, and I'm not sure why but GNOME 2.24 isn't showing up in the repos for me...
Running 'pacman -Syuv' shows:
Root : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File : /var/log/pacman.log
Targets : None
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date
Is it just a matter of the mirrors being slow in being updated, or something more fundamental?
Thanks for any help you might offer...
--
/ron
do pacman -Syyu
notice double y

@wonder: Thanks! That did the trick... I'm in the middle of a 410M update which clearly includes (most of?) GNOME, along with a update to OOo3...

alexmatos · 2008-10-27 10:45:57

Gaim wrote:

Did anybody have noticed a problem with Openbox/Gnome session?=S

I did.

I had to select the "Gnome" option, go to gconf key desktop > gnome > required_components > windowmanager and replace "metacity" with "openbox", and make Openbox start with Gnome.

Diaz · 2008-10-28 18:47:58

yesterday i was trying the thing in the preferences to enable "Desktop sharing" and metacity crashed and i clicked again and then it would restart, but if i tried again i crashed again, and so on...

This version of gnome metacity appears to have some issues. This is the second one that i found that kills metacity that i think has nothing to do with it...

HydroDiOxide · 2008-10-28 20:47:30

I like the update. No issues so far, just some weird things like with the splash. I'm wondering though, when a 'cleanup by type' for the nautilus desktop will be added, as well as cleaner 'sort' functions... I guess a desktop never will be more tidy than when you disable it, but these functions would be nice.

FrozenFox · 2008-10-29 05:01:57

I had nothing but problems with themes. I am not a normal gnome user (tried once again to get used to kde4. i keep trying to like it and get used to it, honestly, but i just cant.), and tried updating the old gnome i had to the new one to see if my other tolerable alternative was better. It seems I had no luck in doing so, as every single theme i tried failed miserably complaining about missing the required GTK+ theme ". Yes, literally, ". Whatever that means. This includes slickness, divinorum, divinorum-revisited, um.. bunch of others. I installed gtk-engine-pixbuf, which was needed, but apparently it didnt help much or this is unrelated. If anyone got one of the above themes working -correctly- on their setup without this bug, please let me know. Until that's fixed (or fixable by me, though I certainly couldn't figure out how nor find a good topic about it) or kde4 ceases to frustrate me enough to make me bald, I'll stay here on kdemod3. Help would be appreciated if anyone knows the solution off the top of their head. Fyi, I didn't have this problem before when I used the installed gnome a long time ago afaicr.

Last edited by FrozenFox (2008-10-29 05:04:43)

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