New GNOME user...

T0ken · October 28, 2008

Recently, KDE4 crashed on me so I've been setting up GNOME to use in it's absence. (you can view the thread for my KDE4 issue here: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=97989 and here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=71984)

I'm liking GNOME so far and my conversion to it has been ALMOST seamless. The only things I'm unable to find is the settings for changing the windows themes as well as power options (screen brightness, etc).

Can anyone help me out?

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

ianw1974 · October 28, 2008

System --> Preferences --> Appearance

to change the themes, etc.

System --> Preferences --> Power Management

for power options (battery). On my laptop I can control the screen brightness using the keys on the laptop fn and the brightness keys.

T0ken · October 28, 2008

Unfortunately, these are not listed in my System>Preferences (Appearance nor Power Mgmt.)

I would assume this is because I was using KDE4.1 and then switched to Gnome?

EDIT:

ACTUALLY, I WENT TO THE PACKAGE MANAGER AND INSTALLED THE GNOME CONTROL CENTER AND I NOW HAVE THOSE OPTIONS. THANKS!!

T0ken · October 28, 2008

Hey, another issue that I'm having with GNOME. Even though I've changed the theme and the mouse pointer, the changes don't show on the title bar of each window. I've attached a picture below:

The mouse pointer will only show it's theme when I'm actually using a specific window (for example, I can see the Oxygen themed mouse when the Firefox window is active). When I'm simply on the desktop, it still shows the original generic Mandriva themed mouse pointer.

Artificial Intelligence · October 28, 2008

AFAIK, you need to restart X before the cursor theme can take full effect, I'm not sure only changed cursor once and that have been 2 years ago.

T0ken · October 28, 2008

Thanks. I've done this (I've actually rebooted the machine) and the issue remains. That also would not explain the reason that title bars on my windows appears to be covered by something.

Thanks for your reply though!

tyme · October 28, 2008

try a different window border theme. there may be a problem with that theme. also, do you have the 3d desktop enabled?

T0ken · October 28, 2008

try a different window border theme. there may be a problem with that theme. also, do you have the 3d desktop enabled?

Yes I do. And I've discovered (with the help of the community @ forum.mandriva.com) that the 3d Desktop is what is causing this.

When I disable 3d Desktop, Everything looks fine, but there are two things:

I'd really like it to be enabled because (1) I love the cube effect (I'm a Linux n00b and Windows user for 10+ years), and (2) I use Cairo-dock, and apparently, without Compiz enabled I get an bad effect where when I pull up Cairo-dock it shows a black background instead of just showing whatever is behind it (see pic below)

After running drak3d as root, I still get the same issue :(

The output of 'cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf' is:

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 247269)   

# **********************************************************************			  
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of					 
# this file.							   
# **********************************************************************			  

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)								 
#DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)			   
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection								 

Section "Module"
Disable "dri"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux		   
Load "extmod"						  
Load "type1"						   
Load "freetype"						
Load "glx" # 3D layer				  
EndSection								 

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"		  
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"  
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection							

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"	 
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"	
EndSection						  

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "evdev"	 
Option "device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-event-mouse"		  
Option "HWheelRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6"										  
EndSection								 

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "SynapticsMouse1"
Driver "synaptics"		  
Option "SHMConfig" "on"	 
EndSection					  

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic" 
ModelName "Flat Panel 1280x800"
HorizSync 31.5-90			  
VertRefresh 60				 
Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900"

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.									
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync		
ModeLine "768x576"	 50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630			 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync	 
ModeLine "768x576"	 63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616			 

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1440x900_120"  229.75  1440 1552 1712 1984  900 901 904 965  -HSync +Vsync										 

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1440x900_100"  187.55  1440 1544 1704 1968  900 901 904 953  -HSync +Vsync										 

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1440x900_85"  156.79  1440 1536 1696 1952  900 901 904 945  -HSync +Vsync										  

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1440x900_75"  136.49  1440 1536 1688 1936  900 901 904 940  -HSync +Vsync										  

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1440x900_60"  106.47  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 901 904 932  -HSync +Vsync										  

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1440x900_50"  87.41  1440 1512 1664 1888  900 901 904 926  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1280x800_120"  181.21  1280 1376 1520 1760  800 801 804 858  -HSync +Vsync										 

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1280x800_100"  147.89  1280 1376 1512 1744  800 801 804 848  -HSync +Vsync										 

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1280x800_85"  123.38  1280 1368 1504 1728  800 801 804 840  -HSync +Vsync										  

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1280x800_75"  107.21  1280 1360 1496 1712  800 801 804 835  -HSync +Vsync										  

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1280x800_60"  83.46  1280 1344 1480 1680  800 801 804 828  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]							   
ModeLine "1280x800_50"  68.56  1280 1336 1472 1664  800 801 804 824  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection								 

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and later"										 
Driver "nvidia"						
Option "DPMS"						  
Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"	   
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"			 
EndSection								 

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"	
Monitor "monitor1"  
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 8		 
	Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
EndSubsection				  

Subsection "Display"		   
	Depth 15				   
	Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
EndSubsection				  

Subsection "Display"		   
	Depth 16				   
	Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
EndSubsection				  

Subsection "Display"		   
	Depth 24				   
	Modes "1440x900" "1280x800"
EndSubsection				  
EndSection						 

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "SynapticsMouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

My hardware is a HP dv6810us. AMD Turion64 X2 processor w/on-board Nvidia Graphics card (GeForce 7510M).

Thanks for all the help!

tyme · October 28, 2008

cairo-dock needs compiz to do the transparency, so that black bar is to be expected. as far as the source of the bar across your window borders, that sounds like a bug - not a configuration issue. there may not be much you can do except wait for an update :unsure:

do you know what's drawing the window borders? is it emerald? you should use gnome-window-decorator while in GNOME.

Edited October 28, 2008 by tyme

theYinYeti · October 29, 2008

(T0ken, this background is awesome!)

scoonma · October 29, 2008

[..]
do you know what's drawing the window borders? is it emerald? you should use gnome-window-decorator while in GNOME.

You do mean /usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator, correct? (as found in package compiz-decorator-gtk)

tyme · October 29, 2008

yes, sorry. gtk-window-decorator is what i was referring do.

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