I reported to gnome's bugzilla too. The actual system monitor works ok, albeit kinda slow and unresponsive, but the applet crashes on load. This is for gnome2, gnome-system-monitor-2.0.0-r1, gnome-applets-2.0.0. Also, gcc3.1.
okay, I have the same setup here and it works for me.... I'm going to check that the schemas are installed properly though.
I re-checked gnome-applets, and yes, that seems to be working properly with schemas. What compile-time flags?
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer"
Ewww.. okay, could be thats the reason, leaving this to the bugzilla team at Gnome, but you could please try the new version thats in portage.
Still doesn't work with the new applet version. Should I try emerging it with some less icky CFLAGS?
you can try, but I'm really not sure what is causing this....
After getting fed up with gnome-pilot and gaim requiring the old gnome-panel and control-center, I emerged them (since I had unmerged them thinking that they weren't required for gnome2). This fixed the system-monitor not loading problem and also gave me a settings option for xscreensaver, which I didn't have before. What's weird about the xscreensaver settings dialog is that it is for gnome2, and not 1.4, but I didn't get it until emerging the old 1.4 control- panel. Anyway, I guess this is fixed now, but maybe gnome people need to know that some of the gnome2 apps still need the old stuff to run correctly.