RedHat 9, Gnome Apps, GTK2

[Paul M. Bucalo]

On Friday 17 October 2003 02:53 am, Matt Dorn graced me with:
> First of all, belated congratulations to the XFCE team on the 4.0
> release--it really is beautiful and elegant in is simplicity.
>
> I just installed the binary RPMs for Redhat 9, and I realize
> they're unsupported by this project, but I wonder if any other
> users who may have compiled their copies haven't experienced the
> same problem:

Where did you get your RPM's from? Could they have been 
poorly/incorrectly created? I am running XFce-4 on RH 9 (using 'gdm' 
to run from boot-up) without any GTK2 problems. 

>
> Periodically, whenever I launch an application that uses GTK2
> (RH9's GEdit, gnome-terminal, Evolution 1.4) while in XFCE4, a
> Window reporting the following error appears:
>
>  Configuration server couldn't be contacted:
>   CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0
>
> And the application generally crashes, with a Gnome message.
>
> Upon relaunching, the same thing happens, but if I shut down XFCE4
> and restart it, the problem seems to be resolved until I shutdown. 
> But next session, same thing happens.
>
> This doesn't seem to happen for older apps that only use GTK1.2.
>
> Anyone else experience this problem?
>
> Finally, a previous poster reported that applications crash in RH 9
> when launched from the "Applications" section in xffm.  I have the
> same problem, with the exact same error messages.

I saw that same post, but in my case, neither of my two RH 9 
workstations suffered any of your problems. I keep them up-to-date 
with RH and I even installed from source three of the plug-ins 
available for the XFce-4 panel without post-installation problems. 

I wish I could help you, but at least I can tell you that not all Red 
Hat 9 users are having your problems.

Paul