[tlug] Ubtuntu 8.04 -> 8.10 Upgrade Pain

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-01-03 11:01 +0900 (Sat), CL wrote:

> All-in-all this upgrade seems to be about as big a PITA as the upgrade  
> from WIN3.1 to W2K was ... but that was a long time ago, now ...

Yeah, I'm seeing issues, too.

The main one for me seems to be changes in the gnome session manager and
associated tools. It seems that between the 2.22 and 2.24 versions of
gnome, they've dropped the ability of the session manager actually to
manage sessions. In the session properties tool, the "current session"
tab is now gone, my .gnome2/session file is being ignored, under the
"Session Options" tab, the "Remember Currently Running Applications"
button now gives a "not implemented" error when pushed, and I can't just
use "fvwm --replace" to replace the window manager. This seems like a
bit of a regression to me.

It's looking at this point as if they've gone to making everything
happen at startup time. I can set the WINDOW_MANAGER environment
variable to have fvwm used at startup time instead of metacity, and
through some mucking about with the registry (or whatever gnome calls
it) I can tweak a setting that seems to let me disable nautilus, and
that gets me part-way there. But still....

Oh, and the "firefox ignores the setting to use Emacs key bindings" thing is
back again. I had this initially on my 8.04 system, as well, and then it
mysteriously started working.

*Sigh*.

cjs
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