From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 18:52:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB1416A41B; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962A113C491; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:52:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lA1ITj9x094245; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:29:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id lA1ITi7v094244; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:29:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:29:43 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: James Message-ID: <20071101182943.GA94054@thought.org> References: <20071101074059.GA89161@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List , Gnome at FreeBSD List Subject: Re: launcher problems... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:52:19 -0000 On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:16:40AM -0600, James wrote: > On 11/1/07, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Guys, > > > > I don't understand this: I just recompiled as much of Gnome as I > > an think of. Still missing are the "greeting application" > > (cf to the xlogin, perhaps). And, after logging in to root > > wwith the daisy-flower login screen, when I tried to exec a term > > or konsole, it said I am missing a "launcher." > > > > Anybody knowwhat I have to do here? > > > > merci d'advanc, > > > > gary > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > You said you hadn't followed the handbook instructions on installing Gnome > last time; have you tried that yet? > This is what I have been doing since my first try at gnome circa 2002. Altho in my .xsession I have "exec gnome-session" rather than the full path to the binary. As "kline" it looks for the typical "greeter app", can't find it, and opens a second login screen. Once I'm logged in there, things go totally dead. Finally a pop-up dialog off screen displays what appears to be the contents of ~/.xsession-error. From there, things lock up. As root, I do get my usual menu strips, but empty. When I right-click (to exec an xterm) the applet says that I'm missing a "launcher". I'm out of idears. gary > James > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org