Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <red.kryptonite@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/30/05, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Ben Rosenberg <red.kryptonite@xxxxxxxxx> [09-30-05 18:29]:
> > http://www.whack.org/~ben/blackened.jpg
> >
> > Have any of you experienced this with GTK applications? It happens with all
> > but Firefox. I have absolutely no clue how to fix this. None of my KDE
> > applications do this. I've gone so far as to backup my needed files and
> > remove my whole home directory to see if something was corrupt. I've made
> > sure everything is good in Sax2 as well.
> >
> > It's only happened since the update before last of the Gnome progs and libs.
> > It's REALLY annoying.
> >
> > Note: If I login as root.. everything is fine.
>
> I don't understand why root is different, but I have seen recent
> discussion of blacked out menu's attributed to glib and people having
> to revert to prior versions.  I believe I saw this on suse-linux-e but
> seem to fail to find it googling.  It was a recent conversation.

I found the conversation.. I've never deleted anything from the gmail
account. woohoo! It paid off. I have to downgrade to the pkg on the
9.3 disks. I suppose that will make it impossible to upgrade ANY gnome
program with apt. *sigh* Wonderful.

Thanks all who replied.

-Ben

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