On 19/04/07, Gilles Gravier <Gilles@gravier.org> wrote:
> But this wasn't happening one week ago...

I don't know; I thought you update Gnome to 2.18.1 (which is what I
did and what the discussion was about).

>
> Gilles.
>
> Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > On 19/04/07, Gilles Gravier <Gilles@gravier.org> wrote:
> >> (RESEND IN TEXT ONLY - SORRY)
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >>
> >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >>
> >> When I start GNOME, I get a pop-up that says :
> >>
> >> There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> >>
> >> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
> >> correctly.
> >>
> >> The last error message was:
> >
> > This was discussed recently. In essence, you haveto start Gnome
> > through dbus-launch.
> >
> > For some reason on my laptop gdm has problems with fonts - I am
> > getting empty rectangles instead of glyphs, so I am starting Gnome
> > from kdm. /usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/kdm/sessions/gnome.desktop had to be
> > modified - the Exec line should read
> >
> > Exec=dbus-launch gnome-session
> >
> >>
> >> Failed to connect to socket/tmp/dbus-awbOyL34MR:
> >> Connection refused
> >>
> >> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
> >> in.
> >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> And, effectively, I get no theme...
> >
> > You can restart manually the settings daemon via
> >
> >         dbus-launch /usr/pkg/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
> >
> > and the theme will spring to life.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Any idea of what may be wrong?
> >>
> >> Gilles.
> >>
> >>
Chavdar Ivanov
>
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