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fredp

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 30

WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

The day after I played with some mono-based apps (desktop-drapes, greent, and perhaps something else) I got a strange behaviour with gnome, even for a  brand-new user.

I guess something went wrong with Xorg or gconf, as
- in gnome menu icons do not show up any more
- on the whole desktop keypress repetition doesn't work (and if I enable it from gnome settings, what I obtain is eg. a double "aa" each time a press the "a" key and nothing more)
- gnome theme settings complain about missing schema for Metacity default theme and won't start
- keybindings which include the Ctrl key do not work (as tab switching in gnome-terminal)
and various other things

What can I do to fix things?

Linteg

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-03-11

Posts: 54

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

try removing your /home/user/.gnome2 folder, it might work (note: you'll lose epiphany's bookmarks and all your gnome-specific settings etc)

chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Out of curiousity, can you set your .xinitrc to just run "exec xterm" (you may need to install xterm first), and see if the keyboard misbehaves.  This will tell us if it is a gnome issue, or an xorg issue.

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fredp

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 30

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Thank you all

Also with a plain X + xterm session key repetition doesn't work

But more strange thing is this (note that this is a just-created user):

no wallpaper, no menu icons, no clearlooks as default theme (and I cannot open the "theme settings", as it complains about missing default theme schema files)

chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Use "xset q" to check that auto repeat is enabled, like so:

[chris@toaster ~]$ xset q | grep "auto repeat"
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
[chris@toaster ~]$

If it comes up as "off", an "xset r on" will fix it.  I hope...

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fredp

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 30

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Use "xset q" to check that auto repeat is enabled, like so:

[chris@toaster ~]$ xset q | grep "auto repeat"
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
[chris@toaster ~]$

If it comes up as "off", an "xset r on" will fix it.  I hope...

That worked! Thank you very much

Now I'm lookin' about the other problems

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

I have the same problem about have to press a 2 times to get a on the screen, but only when i am running without X on terminal. the strange thing is that this only occurs sometimes, any ideas why?

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dadexter

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From: Dorval, QC, Canada

Registered: 2004-09-07

Posts: 274

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Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

I would recommend rebuilding your gnome setup

In your home directory (while gnome is NOT running), do:

mkdir ~/oldgnome
mv ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome* ~/.gtkrc* ~/oldgnome

Then restart gnome, and see what happens... if that doesn't help, at least your old configs are backed up in ~/oldgnome

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fredp

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 30

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Still nothing, even starting a new gnome config from scratch look like the screenshot I posted above

fredp

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 30

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

YEAHHHHHH

I did it!

Something had gone wrong with gconf schemas, reinstalling various gnome-related things (gnome-control-center, libgnome, gnome-terminal) solved it

Flying Saxman

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From: Northern Hesse

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 252

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

greent

Can you tell me, how you installed greent?

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god

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Registered: 2004-12-01

Posts: 25

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Generally speaking, the only times I've had GConf go whacky on me (and I originally suspected Gnome as the culprit, too) were when my hard drive was failing. I've had some bad luck with my last two hard drives (one SATA controller burned up when my laptop overheated and another was Maxtor... i.e. bad). I'd run some diagnostics on your hard drive just to be sure that your problems aren't merely symptoms of a larger issue. Any time you're missing files, have strange and unrelated runtime issues or experience multiple corrupted files, there's reason to suspect your hard drive or memory.

Hope that helps

Last edited by god (2007-04-04 02:19:14)

god

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Registered: 2004-12-01

Posts: 25

Re: WWW (What Went Wrong)? Gnome & much more...

Also, GreenT appears to be a blatant ripoff of Tilda, a fantastic app that I use obsessively. Check it out... it's fast, configurable and very functional.