I am having trouble getting any version other than Gnome 2.6 (Slackware 10.0) to run on my computer. If I install the version that comes with Slackware 10.1 or Freerock Gnome, my desktop launchers do not work. The launchers appear on the desktop with their '.desktop' extensions but do not launch the application. Also, my apps that are already a part of the menu system disappear.

I have tried running '/usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime' and '/usr/bin/update-desktop-database' as was recommended in reply to my earlier post (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=361319).

Any ideas?

Versons of Gnome newer than 2.6 now have HAL built into them (Hardware Abscraction Layer) which requires a 2.6 kernel to function correctly.

If you install slackware 10.2 with testings 2.6.13 kernel you should be set. take not that i havent given 10.2 a go yet but you should be fine.

EDIT: that or just compile a 2.6 kernel yourself.

Good luck.

I'm not so sure that's the problem. I built Gnome 2.8.3 without HAL or DBUS and it runs great. Gnome problems can be tricky, even seemingly simple ones like this. The only thing I can suggest is to try a more vanilla Gnome such as the one Linuce puts out.

http://linuce.free.fr/slackware/10.1/gnome-2.8.3+/

Looks like the 2.10.1 packages aren't up anymore but 2.8 is better than 2.6... I know that doesn't help you too much with your current problem but I would have suggest running update-desktop-database as well. Just for kicks, try running the command this way:

I've found in the past that running the command like that via a doinst.sh works whereas manually running "update-desktop-database" doesn't work... Go figure... Good luck what ever the result.

Well, I finally found a solution. After more research at the Gnome forums, I found that I had to replace the shared-mime-info package with the package that shipped with 10.0. Now my launchers work as expected.

interesting... Thanks for the info.

shared-mime-info-0.16 seems to work fine on 2.8.3 if anyone is remotely interested..

Actually, this leads me to another question (maybe should be new thread). How can correct this so that I can use the standard packages and not have to use and older package?