Re: What is the "Gnome Settings Daemon"?

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 21:24 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
Well, that was NOT helpful!!! "which" didn't find it. I tried the alt-F2
thing, it started something, but it killed SeaMonkey, and left the
system very unresponsive - had to play around to get things back to
normal (ctl-alt-F2, login, back to ctl-alt-F7, then exit from the
ctl-alt-F2 session) and manually restart SeaMonkey.

Check if system has been updated to the latest build

$ yum update

I seem to recall there is a script or something, somewhere in /etc, that
refers to the gnome-settings-daemon, I tried to comment that out just to
get rid of the error message but no luck.
gnome-setting-daemon is started by gnome-session, afaik.



What are "gtk themes"? I have no idea whether they are running, a lot of
this stuff is new. I just recently bought a new computer and upgraded
from my old RedHat 7.0/Gnome 1.x box, so I am kind of clueless on a lot
of the new stuff. But now that I think about it, I DID have to go into
the manual startup list and add a few things, like the screensaver
wouldn't work until I did that.
Does this affect all users on system. or only a particular user ?


And WHY would something like FC6 have an unstable Gnome anyway????
This should not be happening .



Jim Hartley

Daniel Kasak wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:39 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:


I am running a Fedora Core 6 system with the Gnome desktop. Every time I
boot the machine, I get an error message that the Gnome Settings Daemon
could not be run, and it tells me I may have trouble with some of my
desktop settings. Other than having to deal with the window for this
message, everything seems to work OK.
What is the exact error message printed on screen ?




It means you're running an unstable version of gnome :( I started
getting this error on ALL our systems when upgrading to 2.16.something
from 2.14.something.
FC6 uses Gnome 2.16.x series and is supposed to be a stable build .




How can I either:
1. Get the Gnome Settings Daemon to run


Hold down ALT and hit F2, and type:
/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon

That's the path on my system. It may be different on yours. You can try
( in a terminal ):
which gnome-settings-daemon

to try to find it.


or:
2. Get it to stop trying so I don't get the stupid error message


That's a damned good question. I'm all ears.


Since I am not apparently having any problems, either solution is
acceptable. Thanks in advance for any help.


Your gtk themes and possibly other things won't work properly without
it.
gtk theme implies how you application looks like.



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