This is a fresh Gentoo 2005.0 installation, started about a week and a half ago. I encountered some problems with parallel builds as I was compiling GNOME, but setting "-j1" in make.conf allowed the build to complete. (I mention this because I'm not sure if it's relevant to the actual problem or not.) When I start up GNOME, metacity, nautilus, and gnome-panel all appear to launch correctly. However, while the "Window Selector" dropdown menu lists all open windows (in my test case, GAIM, Firefox, and xterm), the "Window List" taskbar always remains blank, no matter how I configure it. I can reproduce this on MY system no matter how I launch X (X, startx, gdm). GNOME version: 2.10.1 gnome-panel version: 2.10.2 Window List version: 2.10.2
Further tinkering has revealed: 1) The buttons actually DO exist -- just one pixel wide. I discovered I can hover my mouse over the sliver just immediately to the right of the bar and I can see the tooltip for the window title. 2) It may be a problem with the installation of GTK themes rather than a problem with gnome-panel. I tried to access the Themes preferences window and I got an error about it not being able to find the schemas. Using the GTK Look and Feel settings (presumedly installed by kdelibs) or switch2 (installed so I can configure GTK under Fluxbox) I can see the list of installed themes but changing the setting has no effect.
are you still having this problem?
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