[Nottingham] Totem, KDE and Gnome configuration

[David Aldred]

Hi, all, me again!

Slight problem with totem running under KDE.  On startup, it objects every 
time that it can't 
....."contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to 
enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a 
system crash".

It then goes on to work perfectly: even saving configuration changes, despite 
making the same objection every time it's asked to save a change!

There are no filesystem problems reported on startup, and as for enabling 
TCP/IP networking for ORBit, I really don't know what it's on about!

I tried starting Gnome to see if that would set something up and sort it out.  
Gnome was a mess - it seemed to be creating windows wider than the monitor 
and error message icons were coming up all over the place, but since there 
seemed to be no working font (or possibly whatever was displayed was right 
off the screen), I couldn't make anything of it.  This could well be a 
related problem.

Any ideas?  It's an inconvenience rather than a real issue, but I'd like to 
sort it out!

--
David Aldred