On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:29:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run Gnome 2.2 on a PowerBook 17" running Debian Testing. > It runs really slow and the panel never shows. The only way I can get X > running is to start up an xterm and then run sawfish manually. I've > tried running "gnome-session -failsafe" mannually and it is so slow. > The splash screen takes a long time though recently it seems to be > faster. Then it takes a long while for the icons in the splash screen > to be displayed. Finally sawfish fires up and that is it. But I don't > have the panel and the sawfish menus don't allow me to fire up apps, not > even an xterm. HELP!!! > > I've tried the following lines in my .xsession. > #/usr/bin/X11/xhost & > #/usr/bin/X11/xterm & > #/usr/bin/gnome-session -failsafe > > I can't get it working. Could someone who has gnome 2.2 from testing > working on a powermac please send me a copy of their .xsession and a > list of installed gnome packages (eg. dpkg -l "gnome*"). > > Maybe I should try to install gnome 2.4 from unstable but I don't really > want to do that yet.
I had the same problems when I upgraded my testing system recently. It was unusable. I tried upgrading the gnome components to unstable, and that didn't help. This really wrecked gnome on my machine, I have yet to get it right again. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
