or "strange behaviour of exported gnome panel"
curiouser and curiouser...
I've been playing around with gnome panel lately and have noticed a few
"features". System layout...
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| |
| Server |
| hobbiton |
| RH 6.2 |
| |
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|
|______________
| |
______|______ _____|______
| | | |
| Client | | Client |
| valkerie | | albatros |
| RH 6.2 | | Win 98 |
| | | |
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I have a nicely layed out panel set up on the server (we'll call this
panel-h). On the RH client I have the local panel running (panel-v). On
the Win98 client I use an X-server.
For the Win98 client:
I export the display and run panel. Everything works nicely but if I make
changes to the panel itself, these changes are lost on logout. This
happens either when I use the panel "logout" command or if i allow the
Windows X-server to kill the panel.
If I start a term, su to another user, export their display and run panel
I get told "There is a panel already running. Do you wish to start another
one?". This is fine and is expected behaviour.
For the RH Client:
I export the display and run panel. Now stuff *really* begins to happen...
Remember, the RH client is already running a panel (referred to as panel-v)
and we're now running a panel from the server (called panel-h).
1). When I start panel-h, I get told "there is a panel already
running..." (panel-v I guess). Now, which panel has detected this and is
asking about it. I presume panel-h knows nothing about the client host
except that it is showing on a remote display (It probably doesn't even
know this; it has no need to know) so that leaves panel-v or the gnome WM
itself. Could be a situation like an ethernet card broadcasting its IP
address and another machine responding that it is already using that IP.
Why should panel-v/gnome know/care that there is a panel from another
host running also?
2). panel-h contains a couple of applets (clock and mailcheck since the
server is the mail server also). When panel-h collides with panel-v,
these applets dissappear from panel-h and appear on panel-v so I end up
with 2 clocks in panel-v and none in panel-h and the mailcheck also
migrates to panel-v where it happily monitors the mail spool on the RH
client which never gets any mail since that all lives on the IMAP server!
If I then logout from the RH client and login at the server's console and
startx, panel-h has no lost its clock and mailcheck! This behaviour seems
bug-like to me.
Anyone come across similar?
--
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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