Lately (2 days back) I got the Mandriva DVD from one of my friend. I was fascinated with the 3D effects it provides and installed in my machine. I faced a lot of issues.
1) Gaim – I was chatting with my friend. In the middle, i opened another window and started reading something. After a couple of minutes, when i saw the chat window a whole bunch of messages were waiting for me. He was about to scold me. I was NOT NOTIFIED about any new messages. Felt really bad 😦
2) The X server crashes when i try to login for the second time. Seems like X server is not yet stable… im not sure. When I switch between the virtual consoles also, sometimes it crashes.
3) I installed netbeans. After installation when i attempted to start it, i could see only the netbeans window without any contents inside it. No menus, nothing. The reason being, AIGLX conflicts with netbeans. When I disabled the 3D effects, it launched fine.
4) I dont think Mandriva has to advertise that their linux is Free throughout from the booting screen to login screen, KDE start menu. It is really annoying…
1) Gaim – I was chatting with my friend. In the middle, i opened another window and started reading something. After a couple of minutes, when i saw the chat window a whole bunch of messages were waiting for me. He was about to scold me. I was NOT NOTIFIED about any new messages. Felt really bad 😦
2) The X server crashes when i try to login for the second time. Seems like X server is not yet stable… im not sure. When I switch between the virtual consoles also, sometimes it crashes.
3) I installed netbeans. After installation when i attempted to start it, i could see only the netbeans window without any contents inside it. No menus, nothing. The reason being, AIGLX conflicts with netbeans. When I disabled the 3D effects, it launched fine.
4) I dont think Mandriva has to advertise that their linux is Free throughout from the booting screen to login screen, KDE start menu. It is really annoying…
For netbeans and AIGLX problem, i exported AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit and it is working fine now.
Gaim not notifying is more to do with Gaim notification plugins.
When I shifted from YMsg for linux to Gaim … I had the same prob. But once I turned the plugin on, things worked absolutely fine. Infact by now you would be fairly familiar with all the plugin as you use some wierd plugins like “You feel a disturbance in the air” :))