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I use mostly the cinnamon fork of gnome-shell but I also give gnome-shell |
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a try occasionally just to annoy myself :) |
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The gnome updates from Jan 1-2 caused me a bit of trouble, but I'm making |
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progress that might help some of you: |
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First, the addition of gstreamer-1.0 is now installed along side the |
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old gstreamer-0.10, which apparently has broken rhythmbox. At first I |
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thought that sound support was broken completely but after a few hours |
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of frustration I found the breakage is confined to rhythmbox and a bug |
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report is already filed. |
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Second, when I use gnome in fallback mode, I found that the multiload |
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panelapplet kept closing and refused to restart. I worked around that |
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headache by turning off background transparency in the gnome panel |
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settings menu. |
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Third, the cinnamon clone of the gnome multiload panel applet was also |
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broken, but the workaround is to update the applet from the 'Get new |
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applets' link on the cinnamon panel settings menu. The new version is |
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ignoring its own settings, but at least it works again. (The version |
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you want is the one by Orcus, which replaces the older one by Ebbes.) |
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I expect all of these bugs will be fixed when more gnome packages are |
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updated by the gentoo devs. |
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(BTW, I've switched to cinnamon because the upstream gnome devs are |
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soon dropping support for the fallback compatibility mode.) |