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blaggard
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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject: GNOME Windows - Drives Me Crazy! |
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Hi,
This is driving me crazy :roll:
I have been a happy user of GNOME WM.
Starting yesterday, to move my windows when I single click and
select my windows (xterm, firefox, synaptic anything) I get this annoying,
ugly 3x3 GRID.
Also, I had set up the double click to roll up and that seems to take longer
with that annoying grid showing up for a short time.
This grid behavior seems to be like some old WMs - TWM or FVWM.
Help me from this insanity.
I did do some upgrades via synaptic from both the BLAG and DAG
repositories. I keep a log of what I installed new but not what I upgraded.
I suspect I am picking up some wrong version of some library but don't know
which one.
Help! Help! Help!
Thanks.
Blaggard
Last edited by blaggard on Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:21 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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slick50
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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The same here the grid sucks but I am trying to get around it can't find an option to change it!!!!! :evil:
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jebba
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Heh.
Ok. Well, I turned on "less_resources" or someshit in metacity. I discussed this with the guys on IRC a bit, and it was decided to make it run fast on the oldest machines.
Yes, it looks really retro. ;)
gconftool-2 is your magic tool to fix this. It got set by blag-firstboot. This is how it is set there:
| Code: | gconftool-2 --direct -s --config-source \
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
-t bool /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources true |
But that runs before any gconf is running. You could turn it to false.
Anyway, I knew it would be a bit provocative to turn on wireframing. I can nix it, of course...
More feedback anyone?
-Jeff
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stevo32
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Could we quite possibly have a screenshot of the issue?
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blaggard
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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OK, I couldn't get the snapshot of the problem. (Tried ksnapshot and the
print screen button; both failed).
The best way to describe it is the TWM/FVWM behavior I mentioned earlier.
I haven't tried Jeff's (Jebba) fix for this yet. Will let you know.
Thanks.
Blaggard
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blaggard
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Jeff,
Thanks for the advice.
I tried the gconf2 command you mentioned as "root". Didn't get any
error messages but unfortunately the grid is still on :cry:
Still couldn't get any useful screenshots of the issue.
As for the feedback, what ever changed appears to slow things
down on my PC (2.93 GHZ Intel Celeron) It could be just my perception :?
Regardless, I vote for turning off the use less resources boolean!
Thanks a bunch.
Blaggard
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jebba
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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blaggard,
ok. noted. :)
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slick50
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Ok, set to false rebooted, bingo the grid is gone .... thank you! try using the gimp with the grid on drove me crazy! I vote can the grid... later.
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blaggard
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:20 am Post subject: |
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OK, I used config editor and unchecked the box (for reduced_resources)
and bingo, the grid is gone! Time to be happy again! This wire framing is
definitely not for me!
Thanks Jebba!
Blaggard
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:01 am Post subject: |
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Ok. In the next beta i'll nix it. If i really get into it, perhaps i'll measure bogomips or something and only enable it if the cpu is really slow.
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