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Tomasz Chrzczonowicz | 2 May 2010 19:19

Getting vanilla 2.30 and GNOME Terminal profile display

Hello,

What is the easiest, clean and non-destructive (appliance, iso, etc) way
of getting vanilla GNOME 2.30 installed on my computer? I wouldn't want
it to use or overwrite anything from my current installation (including
config files).

I don't see any images on http://torrent.gnome.org/

I'm a computer-literate translator, but, regrettably, not much of a
hacker. I need vanilla GNOME for the purpose of translation.

Also, I'd like to ask whether vanilla GNOME Terminal displays the
current profile name in either the window title bar or the tab by
default, like its manual says.

It doesn't in Ubuntu.

Regards,

Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
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Sam K. Raju | 3 May 2010 13:23
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Error building GNOME using JHBuild

Hi,

I am running Fedora 12 64 bit OS and trying to build GNOME 2.30.0
moduleset using JHBuild.

Below are the errors I am getting during build. Some of the packages
required are not available in Fedora 12.
Please help me to resolve these issues.

c++ -o nsNSSCallbacks.o -c -I../../../../dist/include/system_wrappers
-include ../../../../config/gcc_hidden.h -DNSS_ENABLE_ECC
-DXPCOM_TRANSLATE_NSGM_ENTRY_POINT=1 -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API
-D_IMPL_NS_COM -DEXPORT_XPT_API -DEXPORT_XPTC_API
-D_IMPL_NS_COM_OBSOLETE -D_IMPL_NS_GFX -D_IMPL_NS_WIDGET -DIMPL_XREAPI
-DIMPL_NS_NET -DIMPL_THEBES  -DOSTYPE=\"Linux2.6.32.11-99.fc12\"
-DOSARCH=Linux -I/src/gnome/install/include/nss -I. -I.
-I../../../../dist/include/nspr -I../../../../dist/include/xpcom
-I../../../../dist/include/string -I../../../../dist/include/necko
-I../../../../dist/include/uriloader -I../../../../dist/include/pref
-I../../../../dist/include/docshell -I../../../../dist/include/caps
-I../../../../dist/include/dom -I../../../../dist/include/intl
-I../../../../dist/include/locale -I../../../../dist/include/profile
-I../../../../dist/include/windowwatcher -I../../../../dist/include/js
-I../../../../dist/include/widget -I../../../../dist/include/layout
-I../../../../dist/include/content
-I../../../../dist/include/xpconnect
-I../../../../dist/include/unicharutil
-I../../../../dist/include/pipboot -I../../../../dist/include
-I../../../../dist/include/pipnss -I/src/gnome/install/include/nspr
 -I../../../../dist/sdk/include    -fPIC   -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
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Duncan Garland | 3 May 2010 18:53

RE: Remote login

Hi,

Did anybody ever solve this? I know a few people seemed to be having similar
problems.

I've just experimented a bit more and established that it works properly if
I plug a keyboard, mouse and screen into the Debian box during boot. I can
then remove the screen from the Debian box, plug it in to my PC (running XP
Pro) and use Tight VNC to start a Gnome session. The menu is not frozen.

I've got the Debian box configured so that it will boot without a keyboard,
screen, or mouse and if I log in with a non-graphics terminal emulator such
as putty then it's fine. The only problem is with gnome via VNC. It
obviously needs something extra.

The terminal output when it gnome session starts successfully is:

************************************************************

gnome-session
SESSION_MANAGER=local/debian1:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3501

** (gnome-settings-daemon:3509): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension
returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:3509): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's
keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings

** (gnome-settings-daemon:3509): WARNING **: Unable to start a11y_keyboard
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Ralph Blach | 4 May 2010 18:35
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problem with accerciser and ipython

I have installed accerciser and ipython .10 on an fedora 12 x86_64 machine
accerciser 1.9.3
ipython .10

I bring up Ekiga, and go to the contacts table, and enter the following commands

table=acc.queryTable()
In [37]: for i in range(table,nRows):
<ERROR: 'dict' object has no attribute 'len'>

What am I doing incorrectly here.  I saw in a google search that the latest had an exec problem
What can I do to fix this problem

Thanks

Chip
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KC8LDO | 5 May 2010 04:18

Re: Remote login

Duncan;

I don't know if you considered it but have you looked at trying xrdp? I've 
used vncserver on several Fedora boxes and it works once it is setup right. 
I tried xrdp and that was simple to install as running the package manager, 
start the xrdp server daemon and I was done. From the Windows box I used the 
Remote Desktop Connection application, Microsoft's Terminal Services client, 
to connect. You get a graphical login like you get at the locally connect 
console screen. With any luck you have it available for your distro and the 
install script takes care of setting things up, mostly, for you.

http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xrdp

73's

Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
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Duncan Garland | 8 May 2010 13:49

RE: Remote login

Hi Leland,

I've that that but it doesn't work. xrdp installed easily enough using
apt-get.

When I connected using the XP Remote Desktop Connection, the default module
was sessman-Xvnc. When I connected using that I had the same problem as
before,
the menu with "Applications System and Places" was frozen.

None of the other modules would connect. I killed the vnc server and tried
to connect using sessman-X11rdp. That failed with the message "error - only
supporting 8 and 16 bpp rdp connections."

All the best.

Duncan
-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-list-bounces <at> gnome.org
[mailto:gnome-list-bounces <at> gnome.org]On Behalf Of KC8LDO
Sent: 05 May 2010 03:19
To: gnome-list <at> gnome.org
Subject: Re: Remote login

Duncan;

I don't know if you considered it but have you looked at trying xrdp? I've
used vncserver on several Fedora boxes and it works once it is setup right.
I tried xrdp and that was simple to install as running the package manager,
start the xrdp server daemon and I was done. From the Windows box I used the
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Hans Joseph Solbrig | 9 May 2010 07:13
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How do you parse the XDG/gnome/kde menu/desktop item structure programmatically (using c)

Hi All, 

I would like to parse the menu structure for Gnome Panels (the standard Gnome Desktop application
launcher) using c/c++ function calls. That is, I'd like a list of what the base menus and submenus for Gnome
panels are install in a given machine. I would like to do with using fairly simple c/c++ function calls
(with no shelling out hopefully). 

I understand that these menus are in the standard xdg format. 
I understand that this menu structure is stored in xml files such as:

    /home/user/.config/menus/applications.menu

I've looked here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec?action=show&redirect=Standards%2Fmenu-spec
but all they offer is the standard and some shell files to insert item entries (I don't want shell scripts, I
don't want simple installation, I definitely don't want to create a c-library from the XDG
specification. I want to find the existing menu structure). I've looked here:
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en for more
notes on these structures. None of this has so-far given me a concrete idea of how to determine the menu
structures using a c/c++ program. 

The actual gnome menu xml files seem to be rather hairy things - they don't seem to show the menu structure but
to give an XML-coded description of *all the changes* that the menus have gone through since installation
(from which one could indeed deduce the final result but not in a straight-forward fashion). I assume the
gnome panels applets parses these file so there's a function buried somewhere to do this but I've yet to
find where that function is after scanning library.gnome.org for a couple of days. I've scanned the
Nautilus source code as well but Panels code seem to exist elsewhere or is burried deep in the Nautilus
code. 

Thanks much in advance, sorry if this betrays my ignorance of Gnome structures, etc.
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Duncan Garland | 9 May 2010 12:51

FW: Remote login


-----Original Message-----
From: KC8LDO [mailto:kc8ldo <at> arrl.net]
Sent: 08 May 2010 19:03
To: Duncan Garland
Subject: Re: Remote login

Duncan;

The two things I do on all my systems is to turn off SELinux and the
firewall, at the very least its SELinux. I've heard more people complain
about SELinux screwing with things that I don't want to deal with the same
issue either.

So I wonder if that is a problem, something to do with permissions, on some
component in your desktop that's causing the freezing. SELinux won't allow
some file to load or run, one that controls the menus etc.

Well that's another idea to think about. It does sound like VNC and Xrdp is
working, you get connected, but something in your desktop doesn't like
having the output being redirected. Oh, I forgot to mention all the remote
connections I have done was with Gnome, which I assume you use because of
the mailing list.

If you find a solution I would be interested in knowing what it was so if I
have a situation like this sometime I can fix it.

Regards;

Leland C. Scott
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Olav Vitters | 9 May 2010 20:22
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Re: How do you parse the XDG/gnome/kde menu/desktop item structure programmatically (using c)

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:13:07PM -0700, Hans Joseph Solbrig wrote:
> I would like to parse the menu structure for Gnome Panels (the
> standard Gnome Desktop application launcher) using c/c++ function
> calls. That is, I'd like a list of what the base menus and submenus
> for Gnome panels are install in a given machine. I would like to do
> with using fairly simple c/c++ function calls (with no shelling out
> hopefully). 

See gnome-menus repository. It has a libmenu thing. This handles parsing
of those files and so on.

Not a dev, rest you'll have to search.

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Regards,
Olav
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Dotan Cohen | 14 May 2010 04:40
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Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

Can an accessibility or usability expert please take a look at the
following bug:
"Single-click mode for all Gnome apps"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358731

This issue is preventing me from switching to Gnome from KDE. Note
that other desktop environments, such as KDE and Windows, have such a
single-click mode.

Thanks in advance.

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Dotan Cohen

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