One may as well begin with Scott M. Navarre's letter to comp.os.linux.misc:
Quote:> Hi, I recently upgraded from Red Hat 7.0 to 7.3, and I
> notice a differenece with Gnome (for one thing, there is now
> a "Start Here" icon).
RH7.0 came with Gnome 1.2 (IIRC), RH7.3 comes with Gnome 1.4.
Quote:> But when I run Xconfigurator from the
> command line, and it tests the X-Window display, I see the
> old Gnome desktop screen from 7.0.
That's Red Hat idleness. They updated the desktop but not the
configuration tools.
Quote:> But then when I go back into Gnome via the "startx" command, I
> see the new Gnome screen again and it doesn't seem to employ
> the display changes I made through Xconfigurator.
That's odd. What changes? If you look at the timestamp (and
filesize?) of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before and after you run
Xconfigurator, do you notice whether it changes at all?
Quote:> So now I have 2 questions: 1) Is there a way to start Gnome
> into the old desktop configuration? (as is seen when
> Xconfigurator is run)
I don't think so because it's a completely different version of
Gnome. Gnome 1.2 used GMC for the desktop - not Nautilus - and
I don't think the mc binary even allows the gmc desktop anymore.
So, on slower computers, RH7.3 might make them even slower
simply because Nautilus back then (when 7.3 came out) was a hog.
Quote:> 2) What is used to set the color depth, resolution, etc.
> properties of the new Gnome, if not Xconfigurator?
Well, if you don't want to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, you
*should* use Xconfigurator. See above. It would be interesting
to know whether it's actually changing the config file. I
presume you /are/ restarting the X server after making changes?
Pardon the question if not applicable but it has to be asked. ;)
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