totem, rhythmbox won't work without GNOME?

[Danny Yee]

Whenever I try to run totem or rhythmbox, it
    * changes my root window background (to a dark blue background I
    	assume is the Fedora/GNOME default)
    * starts gnome-screensaver, gnome-vfs-daemon, gnome-settings-daemon
    	(which will cause my X session to hang hard if I don't
    	kill gnome-screensaver, as it interacts badly with
    	xscreensaver which I'm running.)
    * crashes firefox

I'm not running GNOME, but a lightweight standalone window manager
(9wm).  Has anyone else seen anything like this?  Is there any way
to run totem, etc. without running GNOME?

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[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 05:04, Danny Yee wrote:
> Whenever I try to run totem or rhythmbox, it
> changes my root window background (to a dark blue background I
> assume is the Fedora/GNOME default)
> starts gnome-screensaver, gnome-vfs-daemon, gnome-settings-daemon
> (which will cause my X session to hang hard if I don't
> kill gnome-screensaver, as it interacts badly with
> xscreensaver which I'm running.)
> crashes firefox
>
> I'm not running GNOME, but a lightweight standalone window manager
> (9wm).  Has anyone else seen anything like this?  Is there any way
> to run totem, etc. without running GNOME?

I second this, it also happens when starting totem within KDE.

I start totem (accedentaly, since I never use it really), something starts 
changing the background to the default blue picture, repeatedly, every 30 
seconds or so. I open the KDE desktop settings, and my old background is 
still considered to be "active", but it isn't what I see. I switch it off and 
back on, apply, and KDE puts my background back on the screen. It doesn't 
last long, though --- after several seconds it is changed again to default 
blue picture.

I also see firefox to crash. Don't know about the screensaver, I use none.

Once totem has been run, this annoying bahavior stops if I logout and login 
back, ie. restart KDE. But only until next run of totem.

Any help on this appreciated.

Best, :-)
Marko

[Rahul Sundaram]

Danny Yee wrote:
> Whenever I try to run totem or rhythmbox, it
> changes my root window background (to a dark blue background I
> assume is the Fedora/GNOME default)
> starts gnome-screensaver, gnome-vfs-daemon, gnome-settings-daemon
> (which will cause my X session to hang hard if I don't
> kill gnome-screensaver, as it interacts badly with
> xscreensaver which I'm running.)
> crashes firefox
>
> I'm not running GNOME, but a lightweight standalone window manager
> (9wm).  Has anyone else seen anything like this?  Is there any way
> to run totem, etc. without running GNOME?

I have filed a bug report against totem and got this fixed in rawhide.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427832

You can file a bug report against Rhythmbox if it has similar issues.

Rahul