Facing weird problems with gnome on FreeBSD-7.2

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 21:55 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had FreeBSD-7.2 on my system a few days back, but had to reinstall it 
> afresh last week. In the new install, I did not install any packages 
> from the distribution media. Instead I built everything from ports. The 
> previous installation used gnome packages from the distribution media 
> itself.
> 
> There is one problem that I faced with the old installation and am 
> facing with the new installation as well. Upon startx, all font sizes 
> (application, desktop, document, fixed, window title) are always one 
> unit less (in size) compared to what they are set. The moment I 
> right-click on the desktop and select 'Change desktop background', the 
> font sizes get incremented to the correct values everywhere.
> 
> With the new installation, I am facing additional - and much more 
> serious - problems, maybe on account of something I have missed.
> 
> 1) Window applications which normally remember their size and position 
> (eg, Nautilus) have lost this capability. Now I have to resize and 
> reposition these windows each time I exec gnome-session from .xinitrc
> 
> 2) Resizing/repositioning windows happens in slow, jittery movements 
> with the display getting wavy till the window is dropped into its 
> desired size/position
> 
> 3) Scrolling up and down a window (eg in Firefox3, Nautilus) using the 
> mouse or the scrollbar is painfully slow, with the display again getting 
> highly wavy.
> 
> 
> If anybody has any clue what could possibly be wrong with my setup, I 
> would be grateful to find out what.

I'm not seeing any of this.  Perhaps there is a problem with your
account.  Assuming all ports are up-to-date, try creating a new, clean
account, and see if the problems persist there.  Also, if you're
experiencing performance problems, check to see if something is eating
up a lot of CPU.

Joe

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