I tried to emerge gtk+-2.8.6, together with glib-2.8.2,and both were emerged successfully. But I couldn't use nautilus under my gnome-2.10: its window frame flickered continuously until the frame got away and left "naked" nautilus behind, whenever I moved the mouse cursor over the buttons of the frame or icons on the nautilus toolbar. I tried a terminal window too, it functioned as expected. Is it a known problem with gtk+-2.8.6, or a problem specific on my system?
you need to use gnome 2.12 with those versions
Thank you for your comments. I emerged gnome-2.12.0 yestoday, and tried to probe a little bit. The problem was just as before. Here is my emerge info: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/ppc/2005.1/ppc64/multilib, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 ppc64 PPC970, altivec supported ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=G5 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc64 -mpowerpc-gpopt -fsigned-char -pipe" CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=G5 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc64 -mpowerpc-gpopt -fsigned-char -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="zh en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc64 X aac aalib alsa altivec arts aspell berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk crypt cups curl dba dvd dvdnav eds encode esd faac faad2 fam fb ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libwww mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam perl png python qt readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode v4l vidix vorbis xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvmc zlib linguas_zh linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I cann't figure out why this bug was "RESOLVED". In fact I tried many times of the gnome-2.12 and related packages, but the problem persisted as before. I'll be very grateful if somebody could tell me his/her seccessful stories about installation of gnome-2.12 or using gtk+-2.8.x on gentoo ppc64 linux.
Hi, have you also tried GTK+ 2.8.7? Did the problem persist?
I just tried gtk+-2.8.8, the problem was same as before. I think the problem may have something to do Xorg rendering functions.
I was wrong. I found the problem had something to do with fonts.conf and local.conf files. By trying different configurations finally I corrected them, and gtk+-2.8.x worked. I emerged gnome-2.12.0 on my ppc64, and it worked even though there was a problem concerning with desktop backgrounds(when having a wall paper).
good to hear it worked out for you.
