[Gnome22-user] Some GNOME 2.2 Icons Broken
Michael G. Morey
mmorey@optivel.com
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:52:58 -0500
Ing. Ramiro Espinosa wrote:
>Are there any Gnome2.4 backport for Debian Stable to be released?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Strandboge" <jstrand1@rochester.rr.com>
>To: "Michael G. Morey" <mmorey@optivel.com>
>Cc: "Debian GNOME 2.2 Users" <gnome22-user@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [Gnome22-user] Some GNOME 2.2 Icons Broken
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>>On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:38, Michael G. Morey wrote:
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>>>James Strandboge wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 15:27, Michael G. Morey wrote:
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>>>>>James Strandboge wrote:
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>>>>>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:30, Michael G. Morey wrote:
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>>>>>>>All,
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>>>>>>>I'm happily running the backport of GNOME 2.2 to Debian Woody, and
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>>>>>>>find that some icons are broken, and so appear as [X] in the menus.
>>>>>>>These include:
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>>>>>>>Actions->Run Program
>>>>>>>Actions->Screenshot
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>>>>>>>Can anyone tell me how to determine to which packages these icon
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>files
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>>>>>>>belong? I know only how to do the reverse, i.e., "dpkg --filelist
>>>>>>><package-name>."
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>>>>>>$ dpkg -S gnome-screenshot.png
>>>>>>gnome-desktop-data: /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-screenshot.png
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>>>>>>$ COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l | grep gnome-desktop-data
>>>>>>ii gnome-desktop-data 2.2.2-1woody1 Common files for GNOME 2
>>>>>>desktop apps
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>>>>>>Jamie
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>>>>>Jamie,
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>>>>>I reinstalled the package, although "apt-get --reinstall install
>>>>>gnome-desktop-data" didn't do the trick. I downloaded the package and
>>>>>installed it using "dpkg -i gnome-desktop-data." That "dpkg -S
>>>>><filename>" will come in handy. Thanks for the suggestions.
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>>>>You mentioned you had gnoppix installed before. Make sure that you
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>>>>all the gnoppix packages uninstalled. Try:
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>>>>COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep gnoppix
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>>>>(I did the gnome2.4 gnoppix packages and gave them that extension).
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>>>>If they aren't xfree86 packages, then remove them (use 'dpkg
>>>>--force-depends --purge' to remove them). After they are all
>>>>uninstalled, do 'apt-get -f install'. This will satisfy any dependency
>>>>issues. Logout of gnome and then back in.
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>>>>Also try under a new user. If it works, it may just be that your old
>>>>gnoppix (which is gnome2.4) settings are conflicting with the gnome2.2
>>>>settings. If that is the case, logout of gnome and do:
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>>>>killall gconfd-2
>>>>mkdir $HOME/bak
>>>>mv $HOME/.gnome2 $HOME/bak
>>>>mv $HOME/.gconfd $HOME/bak
>>>>mv $HOME/.metacity $HOME/bak
>>>>mv $HOME/.nautilus $HOME/bak
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>>>>There may be others. Basically, you want to get rid of all the
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>gnome2.4
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>>>>stuff.
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>>>>Hopefully this will fix it for you. If not, submit
>>>>$HOME/.xsession-errors.
>>>>
>>>>Jamie
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>>>Jamie,
>>>Ick! How can I
>>>downgrade these to GNOME 2.2 gracefully, without inadvertently "pulling
>>>the rug out from under" packages which depend on these?
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>>Basically, what I said above. Log out of gnome and shutdown gdm. Do
>>(as root, all on one line):
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>>COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep gnoppix|awk '{print $2}'|xargs -n 1 dpkg
>>--purge --force-depends
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>>followed by:
>>apt-get -f install
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>>Note that this is a very broad stroke and you may have some additional
>>packages that need to be removed. apt-get -f install may try to remove
>>more as well, or may complain that it can't install certain packages
>>because some other package depends on it (if this happens, remove the
>>package that depends on it with 'dpkg --purge --force-depends').
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>>Good luck!
>>
>>Jamie
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Jamie,
Once again, your suggestions have been right on target. I found that
the downgrade to all GNOME 2.2 has fixed an issue I had with ESounD
and/or the GNOME mixer as well. It has not been remembering volume
settings, and now it works fine. One tweak I made was to select
'Update' in dselect to enable selection of esound, which had not been
installed (though esound-common had).
Thanks very much.
Michael
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