GNOME panel problems

[bryansmith]

Hi all,

Everytime I try to change the properties of the GNOME panel by right clicking and going to propeties, the panel crashes. Any ideas as to why this might be happening and how to solve this? Is there any other way to change the properties of certain panels?

Thanks in advance,
Bryan

[kastorff]

Upgrading to Gnome 2.8.3 fixed it for me. Actually, 2.8.2 might have fixed it...

[bryansmith]

Thanks for the reply,

I will try upgrading GNOME and hopefully that will work for me as well.
I am new to VidaLinux/Gentoo so do I just type

emerge -u gnome

or something else to upgrade GNOME.

Thanks in advance,
Bryan

[Dachnaz]

That code should work. Although you might want to be in the CLI just in case. I'm not sure if GNOME stores older versions of itself.

[bryansmith]

When you say be in the CLI, do you mean to push something like ctrl-alt-f1 and emerge GNOME from there or do you mean something else?

Thanks,
Bryan

[Dachnaz]

Yes that is what I mean. Command Line Interface. Learn to respect its power.

In further response to your question, you shouldn't *NEED* to be in CLI to do that.

[bryansmith]

Trust me, I am learning the power of the CLI. I use it more often that I thought I ever would. I could use nautilus to copy a file, but I usually use the CLI.

Bryan

[sarumont]

Yes that is what I mean. Command Line Interface. Learn to respect its power.

In further response to your question, you shouldn't *NEED* to be in CLI to do that.

No, you can do it from a terminal in X and the current Gnome will run happily until you restart it. This is the case as it's all stored in RAM while you run it, so that copy is the old copy until it's killed then restarted.