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ridcully

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Issues with Gnome

Hi,

I've updated today my arch linux installation and now my gnome desktop looks quite bad. I've noticed that package like pango and gtk were updated. Somebody has the same problem or an idea what to do?

Best regards,
Michael

P.S.: I've made a screenshot which you can find here

Last edited by ridcully (2009-03-28 19:49:59)

skottish

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Re: Issues with Gnome

Welcome to the forums.

You need a theme other than the default. There are a bunch in the repos.

Rasi

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Re: Issues with Gnome

you probably should chose a theme in preferences -> appearance.

If those dont work, you are missing the theme engines, for a start "gtk-engine-murrine" should suffice...

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ridcully

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Re: Issues with Gnome

Hi,

thanks for the quick reply!

You need a theme other than the default. There are a bunch in the repos.

Hrm. I've used clearlooks for some time. I've tried to set to another theme  and I'm getting the following error while I'm trying to open System > Appearance

Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a ]
non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager.

Ideas?

Best regards,
Michael

P.S.: Probably I've missed something and somebody can point me to the right documentation.
P.P.S.: It's an upgrade of an existing installation through pacman -Syu. Everything worked fine till the reboot after the upgrade.
P.P.P.S: There is the list with the packages I've updated (from /var/log/pacman.log)

[2009-03-28 10:44] synchronizing package lists
[2009-03-28 10:44] starting full system upgrade
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded atk (1.24.0-1 -> 1.26.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded cairomm (1.6.4-1 -> 1.8.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded dash (0.5.4-4 -> 0.5.5.1-2)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded glibmm (2.18.1-1 -> 2.20.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded randrproto (1.2.2-1 -> 1.3.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded libxrandr (1.2.3-1 -> 1.3.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded pango (1.22.4-1 -> 1.24.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded gtk2 (2.14.7-2 -> 2.16.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded pangomm (2.14.1-1 -> 2.24.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded gtkmm (2.14.3-1 -> 2.16.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded maven (2.0.9-2 -> 2.1.0-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded openssl (0.9.8j-1 -> 0.9.8k-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] installed openjpeg (1.3-3)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded poppler (0.10.2-1 -> 0.10.5-1)
[2009-03-28 10:45] upgraded poppler-glib (0.10.2-1 -> 0.10.5-1)

Last edited by ridcully (2009-03-28 20:02:39)

skottish

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Re: Issues with Gnome

Are you starting Gnome with GDM?

ridcully

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Re: Issues with Gnome

It's working now. I don't know why and what exactly happened. Maybe I should reboot the next time twice. Yepp, I'm using gdm for login. Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Michael