Re: new user of gnustep on ubuntu question about basic usage

[Riccardo]

Hi,

On 2007-06-25 16:48:17 +0200 Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote:

> 1. all gnustep applications (e.g. GWorkspace & Terminal) start 
> frozen. 
> "Solved" by switching to 24-bit color mode in xorg.conf, at the cost 
> of 
> turning of DRI (my video card driver only support DRI at 16-bit color 
> mode);
This is strange. I use the xlib backend and I even run it in 8 bit 
mode sometimes...

> 2. GWorkspace starts without desktop, must click "Show Desktop" each 
> time I 
> login. Cannot find options like "Show Desktop By Default" in 
> Preferences, and 
> man GWorkspace give no information about parameter that helps 
> GWorkspace 
> start with Desktop;
To permanently save the settings exit GWorkspace cleanly (that is, 
once do a "quit" from the menu or a Logout, don't just kill your X 
session) and it will save fine.

> 3. In Shelf the shortcut I created (by drag & drop) always disappear 
> after 
> logout and login back, must re-create these shortcut each time;
see comment above.

> 5. When I switch from GNUMail to Terminal, the menu of Terminal is 
> brought up 
> in front of GNUMail's menu (good!) and if I click to open a sub-menu, 
> this 
> menu is displayed behind GNUMail's sub-menu, making it impossible to 
> click 
> anything on that menu unless I drag whole Terminal menu away. I think 
> the 
> user-expected behavior is: if menu is in the front, its sub-menu 
> should also 
> be in the front. This also happen to other applications, not just 
> between GNU 
> Mail and Terminal;

This is a problem I have too from time to time. I have no idea... 
maybe someother can comment about this? I have the problem also with 
other applications (say, Gorm). I think it is not application 
dependent.

> 6. Is there a good way to run a gecko browser in GNUStep way? I mean, 
> firefox 
> doesn't look like a GNUStep application when I run it in GNUStep.
Not that I nkow of, but I learned to live with that imperfection... I 
use seamonkey or Opera.

Riccardo