[22184] in Athena Bugs
Re: OLC question about "xwindows"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 21 20:12:29 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: olc@mit.edu
Cc: bugs@mit.edu, f_l@mit.edu
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Date: 21 May 2003 20:12:25 -0400
Carter: from the timestamps and file sizes in
/afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/panel, it looks like you accidentally
overwrote menus-9.1.tar with a tarfile of the menus-9.2 directory. Can
you regenerate the 9.1 tarfile?
Ike: hopefully this will be fixed within the next couple of days.
On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:44, ike@MIT.EDU wrote:
> --------
>
> >> Actually, this is a gnome question. I'm running Linux-Athena on an
> >> IBM. Gnome comes up fine, but there's an annoying problem regarding
> >> the mouse sensitivuty. I have a workaround that involves using the
> >> gnome menu. That workaround involves invoking the settings ->
> >> gnome control center As of last week, this was working fine, but
> >> this week, I noticed that clicking settings -> gnome control center
> >> results in exactly nothing. Is there a problem with the Gnome
> >> Control Center app? I tested this on several machines, all seem to
> >> react the same.
>
> We don't yet know what his problem with mouse sensitivity is, but I've
> been able to reproduce the "control center doesn't run from clicking
> the menu item" error on merriweather (linux) and kuzco (sun) in the
> OLC office. For now, there's the workaround of running gnomecc from
> the command line, but it doesn't make sense to have a non-working item
> on the menu, and furthermore, it used to work. Incidentally, it seems
> to work fine on a 9.2 testing machine.
>
> -Ike
