Need help upgrading to GTK 2.4 on Fedora

[Robert Marcano]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:37, sanjeevdas at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to upgrade to GTK 2.4 on my Fedora box. I
> compiled gtk, pango, glib and atk and installed them
> (--prefix=/usr). I have two problems since then:
> 
> 
> 1. On next reboot, after the graphical boot I didn't
> get the login but an error message saying that the X
> server was already running on display 0 and whether it
> try a new display number. Choosing either yes or no
> did not help and I could not get the login screen. I
> switched to another console and did "startx".
> 
I don't know why ;-)

> How can I fix this?
> 
> 2. GTK 2.4 does not seem to be installed. I still get
> the old file chooser for example. Ran ldconfig. The
> symlinks seem to point to the new 4.00 versions.
> 

The new FileChooser is a new widget, all GTK application developers need
to change the code to use it. This is done because the new chooser is
not API compatible with the old one (thanks to the GTK developers).

> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> sanjeevdas
>