Rawhide is annoying me!

[David]

On 2/6/2011 3:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 18:01:58 +0000,
>   "Paul F. Johnson" <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Any help on fixing these issues, please let me know - they're both
>> driving me mad!!!!!!
> 
> metacity and gnome-panel seem to be getting started as a fallnack when
> gnome-shell isn't installed now. So refreshing from an up to date mirror
> will probably take care of this for you.
> 
> Otherwise:
> Login using gdm (the GUI login program).
> Use ctrl alt F2 to get a vt.
> Login as the same use as above.
> Run:
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
> metacity&
> gnome-panel&
> logout
> Then us ctrl F1 or ctrl F7 (depends on where your X session ended up) to get
> back to your X session. You should have a panel when you do.


Really? So can we 'assume' that this will be automagic for Joe/Jane
Average_user when they upgrade from a previously working just fine
Fedora release using Gnome 2.x?

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  David