Gnome Tiling Kde / Aero Snap like

I would like my windows to snap to full size when dragged to the top, and halfsize when dragged to either side.
How can I do this in gnome without using compiz-fusion?

kmason wrote:
Wait, you can do this with compiz-fusion?
Sorry I can't help much, just curious about the above.
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Aero Snap, snapped

Hi there.
My problem is: I have something that I can't figure out what it is that makes all my windows behavior like Aero Snap. That is, if I drag any window to the top or both sides of the screen they resize according to Aero Snap-like behavior. This thing really ****** me off and I can't make it disappear. I don't have any app with that feature installed (I suspected of TotalFinder but it still happening even after removing it). I actually made a clean install a few days ago and the only thing I can think of its some preference synced from Mobile Me since I tried Cinch (which does it) before.
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Also, If I deactivate access for assistive devices on the Universal Access Pref pane it stops but it doesn't solve my problem since I may need this option activated for other things.
That is most likely because the program uses Universal Access to control the windows.
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What DE/Wms support Aero Snap natively ?

I've always been a GNOME user, but like lots of users Iately I start feeling annoyed by some things in GNOME 3. So I'm starting testing other DEs, and I realize I'm really dependent on the window snap feature.
What DE/WMs support it out of the box ?

It bears mentioning that this feature is just a (very) basic approximation of what you get with a tiling window manager
I've used wmii for quite a few years now, and I was overjoyed when I saw the 'snap' feature in Windows 7 -- finally, I could be slightly less annoyed when using the workstations at the university!
...but it's still nothing compared to a tiling wm. I like knowing exactly where the next window will appear, and not having to spend any time dragging windows around

Gnome and kde not loading with systemd

Hello!
I use [testing] repo and after some updates i can't use gnome or kde with systemd anymore.
* with sysvinit everything works
* xfce and other wms works fine with systemd and sysv
* 'gnome-shell --replace' also work in xfce with systemd
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gnome-session[2301]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' failed to register before timeout
(gnome-settings-daemon:2321): libupower-glib-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Activation of org.freedesktop.UPower timed out
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Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::DeviceAdded(QString)
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I think there is some problems with dbus...

Without a dbus socket, dbus probably isn't running. It's supposed to be started automatically when a program needs it. Check to see that it is installed and running:
pacman -Q dbus
pgrep -l dbus
Dbus won't run without hal, so hal should be in:
tail /etc/rc.conf
Are any of your partitions full?
df -h
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Last edited by fphillips (2009-05-12 18:27:41)

GNOME and KDE file associations

Hi,
I like to use KDE and GNOME, alternating between them. Sounds crazy, but I like both. Please, let's avoid the "GNOME vs. KDE" discussion, right?
My problem is: I like to use different file associations when I'm using GNOME or KDE. For example, I'd like to associate text files with gedit in GNOME and with Kate in KDE. But if I associate text files to gedit in GNOME, when I run KDE and open a text file it opens gedit. If I associate them with Kate in KDE, when I'm using GNOME it'll use Kate as its text editor.
Some time ago I could have both desktop environments without this mess. Can I have this behaviour back?

Yeah, I got tired of Evolution not knowing about opening *.docs in openoffice. After several hours of research, the key is the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, /opt/gnome/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, and the MimeType fields in the *.desktop files. The mimeinfo.cache in /usr was empty and the /opt one had gthumb and other apps but no OO:
[MIME Cache]
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application/postscript=ggv.desktop
...snip...
That's a lot of blather to say that the fix for Evolution/OpenOffice was to add the proper MimeType entry to /usr/share/applications/ooo645writer.desktop:
MimeType=application/vnd.ms-word;application/msword
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Redone "compiz" aero snap

Hello! I'm new to this Linux thing but I think I have my first little contribution!!
I was using this CompizSnap script to emulate Aero snap window resizing on my desktop. (http://mikesubuntu.com/2010/06/snap-win … ng-compiz/)
I'm not sure if there is a different script but I didn't like how you had to select a mouse input ahead of time and the one I use would change as I move my laptop around and it would only work on whichever one it was set to and it was set in a handful of files. I think I fixed that (at least on my setup). Then I reorganized them into single files (controlled by argument) instead of different ones for left,right,top and changed a few things. I was trying to get data extractions to be performed in one command/process. I'm not sure if it's even better and I'm vaguely aware of some bad practices that I theorize may make it run significantly slower (still ~instant of course). Specifically, .*? pattern matching. But I hardly know what I'm doing so it's a work in progress for now! Any input on how to make it better is hella appreciated!
Alright so check this out. Two files: One to resize windows and one that triggers the resize windows script if the mouse is let go while still on the edge of the screen (initially triggered by compiz for me, setup through commands/edge/key bindings). The path of the resize script has to be set in the first one-- is there a better way to do that? I thought about using relative pathing but that seems wrong.
snap_window:
#!/bin/sh
# this script attempts to replicate the window snap function from windows!
# aka resizes the active window to the left half, the right half, or maximizes.
# commonly triggered by moving a window to the edge of the screen or
# by pressing something like <super><arrow>
# the original script that provided this is CompizSnap and the only thing I did
# was rearrange some things to use one file with arguments instead of separate
# files.
# CompizSnap is a collaborative project from ubuntuforums.org and is free
# software. This script adds window snapping functionality to compiz using the
# commands plugin.
# http://mikesubuntu.com/2010/06/snap-windows-to-sides-like-windows-7-using-compiz/
width=$( xdpyinfo | grep 'dimensions:' | cut -f 2 -d ':' | cut -f 1 -d 'x' )
half=$(( ( $width / 2 ) - 10 ))
case "$1" in
left)
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b remove,maximized_vert,maximized_horz && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,maximized_vert && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,0,0,$half,-10
right)
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b remove,maximized_vert,maximized_horz && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,maximized_vert && wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,$half,0,$half,-1
*) # maximize
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,maximized_vert,maximized_horz
esac
snap_window_wait_for_mouse:
#!/bin/sh
# this is a modified version of compiz snap that attempts to work on every
# connected mouse instead of a single one.
# original:
# http://mikesubuntu.com/2010/06/snap-windows-to-sides-like-windows-7-using-compiz/
border_threshold_px=10
mice=( $(xinput list | # list of all input devices
awk ' /Virtual core pointer/ {flag=1;next} # next two lines constrain
/Virtual core keyboard/ {flag=0} # to just mice
flag{
# the mice lines might look like:
# â¡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
# tear this into...
split($0,id_to_end,"="); # 2 [master pointer (3)]
split(id_to_end[2],id," "); # 2
print id[1]
for mouse in ${mice[@]}
do
if /usr/bin/xinput --query-state "$mouse" | grep down
then
while( /usr/bin/xinput --query-state "$mouse" | grep down )
do
sleep 0.05
done
# check if mouse is still at a border when released
read x y <<< $( xinput --query-state $mouse |
sed -n 's/valuator\[[01]\]=$[0-9]\+$$/\1/p' )
screen_x=$( xdpyinfo |
sed -n 's/.*dimensions:\s*$[0-9]\+$x.*/\1/p' )
if [ $x -le $border_threshold_px ]
then
elif [ $y -le $border_threshold_px ]
then
elif [ $x -ge $(( screen_x - border_threshold_px )) ]
then
else
exit 0
fi
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window $1
exit
fi
done
The way I personally have it configured is I put the files in /usr/local/bin/window_snap/ and set the compiz custom commands (top left menu icon in ccsm) to:
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window_wait_for_mouse left
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window_wait_for_mouse right
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window_wait_for_mouse max
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window left
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window right
sh /usr/local/bin/window_snap/snap_window max
I then set the first 3 to edge bindings to be triggered when a window is dragged to the edge of the screen and then the next 3 to <super>{<left>,<right><up>}
Same dependency on wmctrl.
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I don't really know when to to prefer sed vs. awk. awk seems to get strange when you do stranger data extraction but it is scriptable so I think there is a lot of expressive power there for other uses. I was trying (atm unsuccessfully) to make sed quit after it found the first match instead of searching the rest of the string (e.g. for finding the screen x resolution).
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awk ' /Virtual core pointer/ {flag=1;next} # next two lines constrain
/Virtual core keyboard/ {flag=0} # to just mice
flag{
# the mice lines might look like:
# â¡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
# tear this into...
split($0,id_to_end,"="); # 2 [master pointer (3)]
split(id_to_end[2],id," "); # 2
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mice=($(xinput list | awk ' /Virtual core pointer/ {flag=1;next} /Virtual core keyboard/ {flag=0} flag{ print $0 }' | sed -r 's/.*?id=([0-9]+).*?$/\1/g'))
Hope someone thinks its neat or something!

Ubuntu uses compiz. Well, Unity is (was?) a compiz plugin. You could boot a Ubuntu live medium, run ccsm and try to figure out how Ubuntu implements snapping like that.
Last edited by lucke (2013-12-04 13:36:07)

To make KDE apps look like KDE apps

Hi everybody!
I am very new to Arch so please don't be hard on me. :-)
I have some problem with looks of apps. I use Gnome but I also have Xfce and KDE installed. My KDE apps look like this:
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I think that that it would be very hard to use Oxygen effects outside KDE (not kwin: oxygen style has it's own effects).
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I don't want all those GNOME and KDE libs on my system!

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Full KDE - 200 megs
Full GNOME - 80 megs
Base Gnome - 55 megs
I hear so many people saying "Ew, it's using gnome-libs I don't wanna install that" I have said this many times. It's seemed like a lot of usage on my hard drive with all those packages... In reality, 50 megs for GNOME libs or 80 megs for KDE isn't a lot at all.. Heck, UT2004 is around 90 times bigger than installing base KDE and GNOME libs. Thanks to modern technology, most PCs have 80 - 120 gigs on them.. Even with this 30 gig hard drive, 150 megs does not even put a dent. Unless your using a floppy for your hard drive, it won't hurt to install gnome and kde libaries. You need a gig and a half for just winblows stuff! Just because it says:
Targets: hal-0.2.97-2 libgsf-1.9.1-1 gnome-desktop-2.8.0-1 nautilus-2.8.1-1
nautilus-cd-burner-2.8.1-1 libdvdcss-1.2.8-1 libdvdread-0.9.4-2
libdvdnav-0.1.9-2 faac-1.24-1 faad2-2.0-5 hermes-1.3.3-1
libmikmod-3.1.11-1 gtk-1.2.10-4 mjpegtools-1.6.2-1 gst-plugins-0.8.5-1
totem-0.99.19-2
Total Package Size: 11.5 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
It seems like a lot of depedencies, being on four lines and all... But it's really not that much. I won't hurt to have it on your PC.
Just my .2 for the day

xerxes2 wrote:
kth5 wrote:hmm, i have exactly the same scenario on my laptop. it's only a Celeron 700 + 256MB ram. i run kde, mozilla thunderbird, several konsole session, xchat2, xmms plus some more konqueror session w/o any problem. only thing that is lagging behind is my GFX card which needs a share of the system memory. anway, my system in KDE w/ all these apps up needs only ~120MB the rest is filled up w/ diskcache or whatever. it's not bad for a desktop system that is not supposed to render 3D or viewing 100MB+ large files from memory.
I'm impressed!
I havn't tried kde since 3.2.0 and it was totally unusuable due to bugs, crashes, bloat and so forth,
the kde devs must been busy since then...
I was even quite impressed with KDE 3.3.x. I use KDM for my default DM all the time.. GDM is too buggy.. WDM/XDM too ugly... I actually made KDM look pretty sexy.. People say you can't, but it's not that hard... I'll make some screenies if anyone want some

Streamlined System without Gnome or KDE

Is it possible to build a system with out using any programs that depend on Gnome or KDE basically wirh out the need to install KDE or Gnome, yet still be fully functinal with everyday desktop use"?
I might give it a try tonight and see how it goes
Anyone else tried it?

iphitus wrote:you're cutting off yourself from some of the best software available on Linux. Whatever silly speed or ram saving you make, will not make up for the wasted time finding and installing programs that simply do not accomplish the task as well as the ones you're avoiding.
I can acknowledge this. Last week i scratched my head and had too much time on my hands. I installed Openbox as my wm and small apps that fit me pretty much. file manager was pcmanfm, music player ncmpc, icq still gaim, and so on....
In the end (that was on same day) i missed something. Dont know exactly what it was, but now i guess it's the application quality and leaving some apps (nautilus and epiphany for example) which i found to be very usable and easy at same time.
For me that was enough reason to smash it up, backup my home dir, and start new arch install with gnome and for me the project wm's is finished. the only thing i might try in future would be KDE4 but thats another story
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as mentioned filemanager for example pcmanfm, music player a mpd client like ncmpc or sonata.
good luck,
cheers,
detto

Auto suspend on idle without Gnome or KDE? [SOLVED]

This may be a stupid question but I've never had to actually mess with this before on a system without Gnome or KDE installed (they have their own utilities which tends to make this easy) and I've spent an hour researching to no avail.
I'm looking for a way to force the entire computer to automatically suspend to RAM after 30 minutes of no keyboard or mouse activity. I already have pm-utils and xscreensaver installed and 'pm-suspend' already works great when I call it manually but what I'm missing is a way to detect the idle and actually call 'pm-suspend' automatically. I do have HAL and udev. Of course it runs X too but there is no D.E. installed. Only various Window managers.
BTW- this is for a Desktop not a laptop if that is significant for some reason. The reason for it is basically I want this computer to suspend (to save power) at night and other times when it's not being used.
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Still welcoming some help after all....
I've been attempting to use xfce4-power-manager but am having an issue where as a normal user actual power management options other than for the monitor are disabled. It works fine as root but not as a normal user.
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Have consolekit installed.
Launching WM from .xinitrc (No Display manager such as slim) using 'exec ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/wm'
Anything I am missing for why this wouldn't work?
Trying to use the debug option:
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Aero Snap equivalent on the Mac?

Hi I find the Aero Snap feature to be very useful on Windows 7. I've searched and haven't found much info regarding this. is there an Aero Snap equivalent for the Mac? I find myself alot of times needing 2 windows side by side when I'm on my Mac. Any software that does exactly what I'm looking for? Thanks

I don't think you searched very hard.
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XFolders
muCommander
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At VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

Is X-windows and GUI desktops supported on the ODA "engineered system" running a RAC database? If it is, what is the yum command needed to install the X-windows, Gnome, and KDE package groups?

Is X-windows and GUI desktops supported on the ODA "engineered system" running a RAC database? If it is, what is the yum command needed to install the X-windows, Gnome, and KDE package groups?

While I agree with the direction of the suggestions with installing packages for X-windows, we do not have a blanket 'apply any package' recommendation.
In particular we do not support altering the kernel (although we do have exceptions which we review on a case by case basis).
Basically, if the you want to alter functionality that would not impact core functionality you are usually fine.
A good guideling is : The more dependencies that there are between the package / rpm you are considering using the higher the potential impact on functionality - meaning higher chance for problems
Note: We do use VNC including Real and Tiger regularly , but we have no hard recommendation on how you may want to use X-windows. I have never seen a limitation other than comments on bugs
or incompatibility within the X-window product itself with certain kernel levels.
Patching may overwrite some packages that you may install, however, _depending on packages/rpms added_ there is also the possibility that you will break existing functionality to the point
that patching itself will fail ( we have already seen a few cases of this in which case the proper mitigation is to remove / roll-back any alterations to the ODA before patching, and then adding the packages/rpms
back after the patching is completed.
From what you are discussing the impact should be low without conflicts, but please consider the above, and if you have specific packages which you consider potential problems
please create an SR so that we can review packages / rpms on an individual basis.
Once again: the main criteria for not supporting rpms is regarding the kernel itself
Chuck

Windows 7 Aero Snap Feature - how to disable this?

We have Thinkpads in our environment and I cannot seem to disable the Windows 7 Aero snap feature. I went into control panel, Ease of Access Center and made the change, but this does not seem to disable the aero snap feature. Any ideas?

If you have done THIS
And it doesn't work,
Maybe try HERE for more tips.
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Gnome AND KDE won't start (i686 and 64bit)

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71991
I've had a rough time these past few days and I posted earlier on Arch64 forums thinking it was just architecture thing but as it turns out after my reinstallation of Arch to 64 bit again (First i686, then 64, then i686 and now 64 again) I finally got it to work but this time Gnome is a pain in the ass, it didn't work with KDE either but KDE never gave me an error or gave me an option to failsafe into the OS.
$HOME/.xsession-errors:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
gnome-session[3898]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
gnome-session[3898]: CRITICAL: dbus_g_connection_get_connection: assertion `gconnection' failed
process 3898: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3298.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
gnome-session[3898]: ******************* START ********************************
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 0: gnome-session [0x4192d7]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 1: gnome-session [0x419426]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f3cbc493ec0]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 3: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7f3cbc493e45]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 4: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x19a) [0x7f3cbc4952aa]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 5: /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0x7f3cbef6ab95]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 6: /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0x7f3cbef66a5d]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 7: /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block+0x198) [0x7f3cbef50a88]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 8: gnome-session [0x41203c]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 9: gnome-session [0x412140]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 10: gnome-session [0x41a5b0]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 11: gnome-session [0x41aa8f]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 12: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f3cbc48055d]
gnome-session[3898]: Frame 13: gnome-session [0x40aef9]
gnome-session[3898]: ******************* END **********************************
/var/log/gdm/:0.log.3
X.Org X Server 1.6.1
Release Date: 2009-4-14
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux deuklin 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 14:09:36 CEST 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 15 April 2009 11:01:49AM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue May 12 08:55:10 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
dlopen: libdrm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
dlopen: libdrm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so
(EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (loader failed, 7)
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Just a point here is that I've had the exact same software installed the same day that I reinstalled and this error did not occur but after formatting my partition with ext4 and testing Arch64 it did. But it did with 32bit as well, there were tons of errors.
I've read about this ConsoleKit error in a few posts here but nothing seems to indicate a fix or anything and since I'm using Gnome now I didn't find anything on it just about KDE.
I can safely use "Failsafe Gnome" without startup scripts but I want it to work without any problems and I don't know if the "dri" thing is related to the ConsoleKit thing with GDM.
I installed it via FTP and had the latest updates as soon as I've installed, so if this is just something that is happening to me right now or alot of other people, please give us hints or anything that could solve this?
If you read my Arch64 thread you know that stuff stopped working for me, first the network (it turns out I had to boot Windows inbetween installing Arch for my network even to start and that sounds ridicilous if it depends on another operating system starting the device because in Windows the network card was turned on with a green light wherein Arch after installing it didn't. I reformated my partitions and changed it again, installed Windows again and tried it out and then installed Arch. It worked, and then I mixed around with KDE and after five minutes of using "startx" (the only thing working) I decided to reinstall with Gnome, but then the network didn't start again (tried booting about ten times) and then I just thought "Let's start windows first so it turns on" and when I just booted Windows and immiedatiely restarted it and booted with the Arch CD, network was available again. Strange? Or is this a period of instability for Arch?
But when I got my network to start, appearantly Keyboard and mouse wasn't working because Xorg forgot to install the drivers when I installed the full group of Xorg so I had to fix that and now it's giving me this error.

Without a dbus socket, dbus probably isn't running. It's supposed to be started automatically when a program needs it. Check to see that it is installed and running:
pacman -Q dbus
pgrep -l dbus
Dbus won't run without hal, so hal should be in:
tail /etc/rc.conf
Are any of your partitions full?
df -h
For the other error, it looks like libdrm isn't installed, but I don't think you need it if you're running the nvidia driver.
Your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log would also be useful. Also check dmesg for errors.
And see if /etc/rc.d/dbus is marked executable.
Last edited by fphillips (2009-05-12 18:27:41)

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