| 1. Q: |
What is GNOME?
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| A: | GNOME (pronounced "guh-nome") is an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment. GNOME is a component of the GNU Project, providing a free desktop environment that runs consistently on many different platforms, is easy to use, and is visually appealing. For more information about GNOME, Ximian, and the GNU Project, refer to the following links. top |
| 2. Q: |
Are there other GNOME Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) lists?
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| A: | The general GNOME FAQ can be found at the GNOME Project Web site at http://www.gnome.org/faqs/. Ximian also includes its own FAQ with the installation of Ximian GNOME for HP-UX. When the product is installed, Ximian's FAQ can be found at:
/opt/gnome/share/gnome/html/ximian-faq/index.html
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| 3. Q: |
How stable is this release?
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| A: | This release is intended to provide availability of Ximian GNOME 1.4 on HP-UX. This product is not supported, and therefore it is not recommended for mission-critical or production environments. For specific information about issues and limitations in this release, refer to the Known Issues. top |
| 4. Q: |
What printers are supported by GNOME?
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| A: | GNOME has built-in support for PostScript-compatible printers. To use other types of printers, install the GhostScript program found at:
GhostScript
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| 5. Q: |
I can't find HP-UX as a supported platform at Ximian's Web site. How can I get GNOME?
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| A: | The Ximian GNOME for HP-UX product bundles can be downloaded from the Get the Software page. top |
| 6. Q: |
Where can I get the Evolution client application for GNOME on HP-UX?
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| A: |
Evolution is a personal and workgroup information management solution available from Ximian. The Ximian download for HP-UX is no longer available. For more information, see http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html. top |
| 7. Q: |
How do I install Ximian GNOME for HP-UX?
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| A: | The product is available as a set of depot files. You use the Software Distributor swinstall utility to install the depots. For detailed instructions, refer to the Install the Software page. top |
| 8. Q: |
I've enabled GNOME, but I need to get back to CDE. How can I do this?
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| A: | This topic is covered in the Reverting to CDE section on the Install the Software page. top |
| 9. Q: |
Why does my system appear to hang for some time when I login to GNOME?
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| A: | When Nautilus is used to manage your desktop files, there can be a noticeable delay at startup before the desktop icons are fully rendered and your desktop becomes responsive. On older systems, it may take over 30 seconds to finish the initialization. During this time, the mouse pointer may move erratically and icons on the desktop may not be fully drawn. If you have selected gmc to manage your desktop files, you should not see this delay. See the next FAQ for information on switching from Nautilus to gmc. top |
| 10. Q: |
How can I use gmc instead of Nautilus to manage my desktop files?
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| A: | Execute the following steps: Open a terminal. Run session-properties . Click on the Nautilus row to select it. Click [Remove]. Click [Ok] to exit.
This will kill Nautilusfor this session and further sessions. To restart it, execute:
nautilus &
or to run gmc, execute:
gmc &
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| 11. Q: |
I've found a bug. How do I report it?
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| A: | See the Reporting Problems section on the Issues and Problems. top |
| 12. Q: |
How can I set up environment variables that will apply to all applications started under GNOME?
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| A: | When the gnome login manager (gdm) starts up, it executes commands from the following files. These commands are executed via source-include, so they are most useful for setting exported environment variables. Any executable shell source file in the directory /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gnomerc.d. These scripts should be used to set environment variables common to all users of GNOME. If it exists, and is executable, the file $HOME/.gnomeprofile is sourced after you login to gdm This file should be used to set environment variables specific to an individual user.
For details on the GNOME startup sequence, examine the shell script that starts GNOME:
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions/Gnome
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| 13. Q: |
How can I run a single GNOME session from a CDE login prompt or other startup environment?
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| A: | To start GNOME after the X Window System is running, execute:
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions/Gnome
If you are starting up from a command line login, follow the example below.
If you have a system with GNOME installed, but need to use CDE as the login environment, then a single GNOME session can be started as follows.
Example: Starting GNOME from CDE login prompt Start the Command Line Login from the CDE login screen. Make sure that you do not have a $HOME/.xinitrc file; temporarily move it to another location if necessary. Make sure that your PATH includes the directories /usr/contrib/bin and /usr/bin/X11. Execute the following command to start the X Window System and GNOME.
xinit /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions/Gnome
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| 14. Q: |
I'm logged in as root, and the screen saver doesn't work. Is this a bug?
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| A: | No, this is a deliberate security feature of the xscreensaver. Details on this particular question are available at the xscreensaver FAQ found at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-fail. top |
| 15. Q: |
Why don't my screen colors look right? -OR- What can I do about color allocation errors?
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| A: | GNOME applications use colors extensively. The X display server on some HP-UX systems uses a default visual setting of 8-bit PseudoColor. This setting does not allow GNOME to make effective use of colors and shading. If you have a 24-bit display device, you may want to change the default visual to 24-bit TrueColor, which will greatly enhance the visual appeal of the GNOME desktop. You can change this setting through the Display icon in sam(1M), or manually, by editing /etc/X11/X0screens. The following example entry for X0screens will force the X server to use a 24-bit TrueColor visual in the image planes.
Screen /dev/crt
DefaultVisual
Class TrueColor
Depth 24
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On 8-bit displays, a TrueColor visual is also available, and can be selected, but the resulting colors may not look quite right.
If you are unable to use 24-bit TrueColor, then you need to reduce your applications' use of colors. Here are some suggested ways to limit your applications' color usage. Run the command imlib_config, and select the "small color set" option. This will leave more colors available for your applications.
Use a simple (or no) background image.
Select a plain GTK theme that does not use shading.
Select a basic sawfish theme without shading.
Use the -install option when you run
netscape.
For more information about HP graphics devices and their configuration, refer to the links below. top |
| 16. Q: |
How can I get finer control over the behavior of the screensaver?
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| A: | The Screensaver control in the GNOME Control
Center does not allow you to modify all of the settings of
xscreensaver. You may be able to fine-tune the behavior of
the screensaver by editing the file $HOME/.xscreensaver.
However, changes that you make to this file may be overwritten if you
later use the GNOME Control Center to modify the screensaver settings.
For more information about xscreensaver, refer http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
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| 17. Q: |
How can I unlock the screen when my xscreensaver window is unreadable? There are color allocation errors reported on the screen.
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| A: |
This can occur when there are insufficient colors available to display
the xscreensaver login window. You should still be able to unlock the
screen by typing in your password and pressing [Enter],
even though the login screen may not display correctly (it may be
displaying black text on a black background). To avoid this problem in
the future, follow the advice in the previous answer above.
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| 18. Q: |
Some applications report a GDK-WARNING regarding unsupported locale or Missing charsets in FontSet creation. How can I fix this?
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| A: |
If you are using a language setting of "C",
"POSIX", or "en_US", edit your GDM preferences
file $HOME/.gnome/gdm. Change the lang setting to
"en_US.iso88591". This should correct the problem for most
applications.
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| 19. Q: |
Why doesn't the web browser start when I click on the panel button that says "Netscape"?
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| A: |
Make sure that the directory containing the
netscape executable is included in your
system's default PATH variable setting.
This is usually /opt/netscape or
/opt/netscape/bin. To change the default
path used by gdm, edit the file /etc/PATH, logout of GNOME, and then login again.
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| 20. Q: |
How do I access the gnome-terminal menu if I've disabled the menu bar?
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If the menu bar does not appear at the top of your
gnome-terminal window, you can bring up the
menu by right-clicking anywhere inside the window. You
need to make sure that no text is selected in the window
first, for example by pressing [Enter] on an
empty command line.
To re-enable the gnome-terminal menu bar, bring up the menu
and select Preferences from the Settings menu, and the
General tab. Unselect the option Hide menu bar, then
click [OK].
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| 21. Q: |
How can I set up my normal login environment with gnome-terminal?
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You can specify that gnome-terminal should always process
$HOME/.profile ($HOME/.login if your login
shell is csh) when it starts up. From the
gnome-terminal menu, select Settings then
Preferences, and the General tab. Select the
option "Use --login by default", then click [OK].
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| 22. Q: |
How can I get gnome-terminal to use the backspace key?
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| A: | Choose one of two following methods: Make sure that gnome-terminal is set to
"Use --login by default" (see the previous FAQ).
Add the following line to $HOME/.profile
($HOME/.login if your login shell is
csh):
From the gnome-terminal menu bar, select Settings then
Preferences, and the General tab. Select the option "Swap
DEL/Backspace", then click [OK].
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| 23. Q: |
Why don't the [Del] and [Ins] keys work as they do under CDE?
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| A: | For details about the use of these keys with Motif applications under GNOME, refer to Tech Note 2: Delete/Insert keys with Motif apps under GNOME
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| 24. Q: |
Why does cut-and-paste work for only a few lines at a time?
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| A: |
Your terminal interface may be set to automatically send flow control
START/STOP characters when the input queue is nearly empty/full. This
can prevent you from pasting all of the characters that were cut. To
disable automatic generation of terminal flow control characters,
execute the following command (you may want to include this in your
.profile).
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| 25. Q: |
Can I run GNOME from a remote system?
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| A: | The GNOME login manager gdm provides support for XDMCP, which can be used to run GNOME desktop sessions to remote X display servers. This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, you must update your gdm configuration using the following steps.
Run the utility gdmconfig. This must be
run with root permissions. You can start
it directly from the initial login banner, or from a
root login shell.
In gdmconfig, select Expert, XDMCP, then Enable XDMCP.
Click [OK], and then [Yes] to save your changes and reset gdm.
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| 26. Q: |
How do I get "XDMCP Indirect" to work? When I attempt to use it to display gdmchooser, I just get a gdmlogin, as if "XDMCP Direct" were selected.
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| A: | This is a known problem with the version of gdm used by Ximian GNOME for HP-UX. Future releases of this product may include an updated version of GDM to address this problem. More information about this issue is available in the GNOME archives. top |
| 27. Q: |
Why doesn't a maximized window occupy the entire display?
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| A: |
The sawfish window manager restricts the
dimensions of maximized windows so that they will not
conceal the default GNOME panel (the edge panel at the
bottom of the screen) and the menu panel at the top of the
screen. If you want more space for your maximized
windows, you can remove the menu panel and/or modify the
default GNOME panel to automatically "hide" until the
cursor reaches the edge where the panel resides.
To automatically hide the default GNOME panel:
right-click in an empty space in the panel;
from the pop-up menu, select Panel » Properties » Hiding Policy » Auto hide.
To remove the menu panel:
right-click in an empty space in the panel;
from the pop-up menu, select Panel » Remove this panel.
To restore the menu panel:
click on the GNOME "foot" icon in the default GNOME panel;
from the pop-up menu, select Panel » Create panel
» Menu panel.
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| 28. Q: |
Why can't I resize a maximized window under GNOME?
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| A: | By default, maximized windows are locked in size and
position until they are un-maximized. To change this
behavior, follow these steps: Start the GNOME Control Center by clicking the toolbox icon on the Panel.
Select Minimizing and Maximizing
underneath Sawfish window manager.
Unselect the option Lock position and size while
windows are maximized.
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| 29. Q: |
How do I set X resources for non-GNOME X applications?
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| A: | The GNOME session startup script reads $HOME/.Xresources,
if it exists, and applies the X application resource settings defined
there. If you already have your X resouce settings defined in
$HOME/.Xdefaults, then simply create
.Xresources as a symbolic link to .Xdefaults:
ln -s .Xdefaults $HOME/.Xresources
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| 30. Q: |
How do I control and set the window positions of an application running under GNOME?
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| A: |
The sawfish window manager is responsible for
positioning windows under Ximian GNOME for HP-UX. Applications running
under sawfish can provide window position hints
according to the emerging specification from the Window Manager
Specification Project. The current draft of this specification is
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| 31. Q: |
Why doesn't the scroll wheel on my mouse work under GNOME?
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| A: |
The HP-UX X server provides scroll-wheel support for USB mice, but not
for PS/2-style mice. Even if you are using a PS/2 to USB adapter, the X
server does not make scroll-wheel events visible to Ximian GNOME for
HP-UX. A true USB scroll-wheel mouse should work correctly.
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| 32. Q: |
Why is XMMS unable to load skin files (either .tgz or .zip skins)? These files work fine under Linux.
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| A: | XMMS expects unzip and the GNU tar program to be available. These are not part of GNOME, but are open-source utilities that are included on most Linux systems. You can get these utilities for HP-UX from the HP DSPP Developers Edge Web site using the following link: If you have installed these utilities under different names, or in directories that are not on your PATH, you can set the environment variables UNZIPCMD and TARCMD to point to the executable files.
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| 33. Q: |
Why won't gnumeric load any XLS spreadsheets?
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| A: |
The XLS file import plugin is not automatically enabled. To
enable it, select Tools » Plugins, then click
Activate all plugins.
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| 34. Q: |
Why can't I capture screen images with the screenshooter application?
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| A: |
In order to capture screen images, screenshooter requires
ImageMagick, which is not part of the Ximian GNOME for
HP-UX release. For information about installing
ImageMagick, refer to the ImageMagick.org Web site at http://www.imagemagick.org .
As an alternative, you can capture screen images using the GNOME hot-keys assigned to this function. The [PrtSc] key
will display a dialog that lets you capture the entire screen as a
graphic image. Use [Shift-PrtSc] to
capture the current window only.
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| 35. Q: |
The menu accelerators seem to be working now in GNOME 1.4, but only the left [Alt] key works. How can I enable the right [Alt] key too?
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| A: |
The modifier keymapping has been adjusted in the default GNOME
settings. This allows the menu accelerators to work with the left
[Alt], while retaining the compose
feature with the right [Alt]. This change was made
system-wide for GNOME sessions in /etc/X11/Xmodmap.
To disable the compose feature and enable both
[Alt] keys to function as menu accelerators, edit the
contents of /etc/X11/Xmodmap as follows.
clear mod1
add mod1 = Alt_L
add mod1 = Alt_R
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If you only want to make this change for a specific user, save this file
as $HOME/.Xmodmap.
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