From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N53Er-0002m7-Uk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:10:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B028E07A3; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6956AE07A3 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD2466F16 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:10:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.139 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.139 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.540, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CDJS4sGsEpKO for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CA366F8B for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N53Ee-0001dd-Qd for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:40 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:40 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:10:06 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4AEF2508.9020400@xunil.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-177.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091102 Shredder/3.1a1pre In-Reply-To: <4AEF2508.9020400@xunil.at> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8db5e9b0-b92f-48ed-ad3e-cfa566239fef X-Archives-Hash: 5372a7b2819116d056676b371d897bb4 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.