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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:10:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hcneb2$fph$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEF2508.9020400@xunil.at>

On 11/02/2009 10:29 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> I have to admit that I "touched a running system" again ;-)
> 
> My thinkpad runs gentoo linux x86, some unstable packages as well, I
> upgraded to Gnome 2.28 a few days ago.
> 
> Yes, this could as well got to the mythtv-users-list but I assume the
> problem isn't with mythtv ...
> 
> The symptoms:
> 
> When I start mythfrontend it opens but somehow "kills" the display of
> the window borders ... the windowmanager seems to be hit somehow.

Alas, I forget the details, but there was something in my ~./gconf
that caused problems when I upgraded to 2.28.

I created a new user and started with a clean home directory and all
worked properly, so I knew something in my home directory was broken.

May not help you, but it's worth a try.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-02 18:29 [gentoo-user] mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-02 20:10 ` walt [this message]
2009-11-02 20:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-02 21:34     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-02 23:29       ` walt
2009-11-03  8:08         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-03  8:23           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-03 17:02             ` walt
2009-11-03 20:31               ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-04  0:45                 ` walt
2009-11-04 12:18                   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-04 12:28                     ` Dale
2009-11-05 17:53                       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-11-03 10:01           ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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