[KLUG Members] RH 8.0 and Gnome Daemon

[Adam Williams]

>>>Thanks. It was the control center giving me problems. Everything is up and
>>>running now.
>>Great, another sheep kept in the GNOME fold!
>>>Bluecurve is a bit unsettling. It truly is an XP/Mac teletubish theme of
>>>sorts. Underneath things feel pretty solid...and when I get scared I just
>>>run back to the terminal ;}
>>Applications->Preferences->Theme   Personally, I like BlueCurce except I
>>change window borders to Crux.
>Here's a problem I'VE been having with it: With previous managers, I
>used to be able to navigate down the program menu, right-click on a
>selection and select 'properties' to find out what it calls up. This is

You can RightClink->"Put into run dialog" to see what executable the
entry references.

>how I picked up on 'neat' and a couple other programs. THIS one doesn't
>seem to want to let me do that, which means I can't find out why 'System
> Settings' -> 'Packages' fails.

I think you need to have the installation media mounted.

>I can edit the icons on the panel, but the only options I get when I
>right-click that red hat are 'Help', 'Remove From Panel' and 'Move'.
>Neither this icon nor any of the submenus or selections seems to want to
>let me edit them. I really wish they hadn't pulled that option. At LEAST
>they could have included it and just asked for the root password when
>the user selected it.

Right, they are system-wide menus and cannot be edited.  Can you edit
them as root?  Proper GNOME menu editing isn't implemented in the GNOME
version RedHat supplied,  hopefully they will have an update.

>Okay, I DO see a 'put into run dialog' option that lets me at least SEE
>what the selection does. I still don't like this setup, but at least I
>can see the command I need to investigate. If anyone has any idea how to
>get that editing option back, I would still love to know.

You can edit the menus.  Go to nautilus and type "start-here", then
double click on Applications.  A proper menu editor is available in
later GNOMEs.