My impression about Gnome 2.10 + a couple of Qs

[Miguel Mendez]

Hi all,

I've been a long time WindowMaker user and, although I've used KDE and
Gnome in the past, I never really got into them. However, I wanted to
give Gnome 2.10 a try, and I have to admit I'm liking it, and will
probably switch to it fulltime when they fix some of the memory usage
bugs (read: nautilus). I'd like to thank the FreeBSD gnome team for
their great job as well.

Now, there's a little problem. I use xemacs as my coding editor, and
never had a problem before. Gnome insists on changing the aspect of the
app, like KDE did, although I remember KDE having an option in the
control center to disable that. I can't find this anywhere in the
Gnome control center. How can I tell Gnome not to touch my xemacs? Or
is it hidden inside the gconf files?

This is how xemacs looks, with white bg instead of gray:
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org/images/emacs-fubared.png

It's a stock xemacs built from ports + the NeXT icons.

Besides that, I'm getting X errors every time paren highlight happens
or I'm doing some editing. The errors look like this:

X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x1000be7
  Serial number of failed request:  29461
  Current serial number in output stream:  29463
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  25 (X_SendEvent)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x1000be7
  Serial number of failed request:  29462
  Current serial number in output stream:  29463
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x1000be8
  Serial number of failed request:  29469
  Current serial number in output stream:  29471
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  25 (X_SendEvent)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x1000be8
  Serial number of failed request:  29470
  Current serial number in output stream:  29471

This does not happen when used with WindowMaker or XFCE, so I'm
assuming it's metacity's/Gnome's fault.

Cheers,
-- 
Miguel Mendez <flynn at energyhq.es.eu.org>
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org
PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1

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