Need help upgrading to GTK 2.4 on Fedora

[sanjeevdas at yahoo.com]

--- Robert Marcano <robert at marcanoonline.com> wrote:
> 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).
> 

I see! The one reason I wanted to upgrade to 2.4. I
guess I'll jusr wait for Gnome 2.6...

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