Solaris 9 / GNOME 2.0 / SunPCI II problem

Question

Hello. I have Solaris 9 on a SunBlade 100 with SunPCI II (running Windows 2000 Professional). Both OSes have the latest patches. When running under Gnome 2.0 the SunPCI/Windows requires multiple clicks of the mouse to affect any controls. For example, launching IE from the taskbar ought to take one click and it does this when running under CDE. But under Gnome I have to double, triple, quadruple click before it will launch. I cannot open the start menu because one-click does not affect it, but double-click opens and then immediately closes it. Other controls have similar problems. Native Solaris/Gnome apps are not affected - only Windows/SunPCI. Has anyone run into this strange problem, and if so what is the solution? Thanks.
Viren Patel
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin

Answer 1

Personally I think JDS3 is a bit awkward and
certainly not as nice to use as Gnome2. I was
disappointed to see the CDE apps menu has disappeared
too, I had to figure out where certain apps are on
the HDD, something I never thought to do in the past.
Specifically I was looking for SMC, which I
eventually found in /usr/sadm/bin/smc.
I was under the impression from Sun's own
documentation, that Gnome would be the replacement
for CDE, I figured they'd included it with latter
Solaris9 installs as a stop gap. I also noticed that
when I installed Solaris10, I saw a message box
mention KDE a few times so I expected to see an
option for KDE as well. Dunno if it's hidden away
somewhere but I'd sure like to know what it was all
about.I wonder whether one can get rid of some of the JDS stuff and just use the GNOME part. I never understood why so many of the desktop environments try to immitate Windows even to the extent that there is a launch (aka start) button.
Matthias