x.org discussion

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Joe Kelsey wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 14:52, Joe Kelsey wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:41, Punahele Tannehill wrote:
>>> Having just scampered through a thread on questions@, I'm curious about people's
>>> opinions and experiences are with X.org system as compared to XFree86.
>>> Especially in terms of how it may or not affect future development of Gnome.
>>
>> I just replaced XFree86 with X.org.  It took quite a bit of work, even
>> with the meta-port.  I had major trouble with the meta-port due to
>> poorly=specified prerequisites and inability of portinstall to operate
>> on it.
>>
>> Since upgrading, several panel applets no longer work.  The WindowList
>> and WorkspaceSwitcher applets no longer start up, instead giving some
>> sort of incomprehensible OAFID error which I have no idea how to fix.
>> This causes much frustration, as I rely on the Window List applet to
>> recover iconified applications, such as evolution.  Therefore, I can no
>> longer iconify anything, leading to much frustration in my daily work.
>>
>> I assume that if I can ever solve the WindowList applet problem, then I
>> see no problem with X.org.
>
> In answer to my own question, while trying to rebuild gnomepanel, it
> turns out that libwnck references the no-longer-existant libXRes.so, so
> I need to rebuild libwnck before rebuilding gnomepanel.
>
> I cannot find any error in any error log which tells me that the reason
> the window-list applet cannot start results from a loader error.  What
> else might I find that doesn't work now that I have switched to X.org?
> I really do not want to do a portupgrade -fr pkgconfig, but maybe I need
> to?
Yes, I had these problems with applets, too. They went away after 
a big portupgrade.

Uli.


>
> /Joe
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