[64studio-devel] 64 Studio 2.1rc1 is out

[qharley at wbs.co.za]

> Hi Free,
>
>>   DJ> 1. The Gnome splash hangs around until you click it. Quentin saw
>> this
>>   DJ> once before, I think; I can reproduce it on this clean install.
>>
>> I've noticed that too, but I have no idea about how to fix it. Do you
>> know of any workaround?
>
> Gnome -> Desktop -> Preferences -> Sessions has a checkbox to get rid of
> the splash completely. There don't seem to be any ill effects to doing
> that - maybe we can set it in gconf.

That would be great.  It is not as if the splash is keeping you ocupied
while the OS loads...  It merely announces that it has loaded (or it all
happens so quickly that thats what it looks like...

>
> More seriously, the Gnome menu -> Log out (username) -> Log Out command
> seems to be broken on my test laptop. It logs out after 90 seconds or
> more, but sometimes much less. Gnome -> Shut Down or even Gnome -> Log
> out -> Switch User works as normal.
>
> If I leave it to log out and switch to a console, I can see two
> processes are still running under my username. One is qjackctl-wrapper,
> which I guess isn't being properly killed. The other is sleep - I don't
> know why that's still running.

I found the same.  Not possible to really log out.


>
> I found I could force an immediate log out by clicking Gnome ->
> Accessories -> Terminal after clicking on Log Out, no delay at all.
>
> Is anyone else having trouble logging out in 2.1-rc1, or is it just me?
> :-)
>
>> I just discovered that the whole office suite was not tagged for
>> automatic install :/ I just fix it anyway, please try to run apt-get
>> update against the testing branch and:
>>
>> aptitude install ~t^cdd$
>
> Yep, that fixed it. It fixed the missing Icedove dictionaries too.

And I had to fix that manually %)

So, when can we expect RC2?

Quentin