Date: 27 Sep 2002 00:23:27 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gconfd-1 and gnome2, and the faq Message-ID: <1033100611.1161.53.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020927041536.GU77771@vectors.cx> References: <20020926111613.GQ77771@vectors.cx> <1033089964.756.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020927041536.GU77771@vectors.cx>
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On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 00:15, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> >> (09.26.2002 @ 1826 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 2.1K: <<
> > Nope. If you have the latest versions of gconf and gconf2 installed,
> > then gconfd-2 will be used instead of gconfd-1. This solves the
> > problem. gconfd-2 is backwards compatible.
>
> i have the latest versions of both installed, but use fvwm2-devel as my
> window manager. often the first gnome app to start in my X session is
> galeon. as soon as galeon fires up, so does gconfd-1.
>
> monkey@smacky:~% killall galeon-bin; killall gconfd-{1,2}; galeon&
> monkey@smacky:~% ps auxw|grep gconf
> monkey 22989 0.0 0.6 3900 2996 p5 SN 9:08PM 0:00.06 /usr/X11R6/bin/gconfd-1 8
>
> so far, i've just added:
> gnome-control-center &
> sleep 5 && killall gnome-control-center &
> to my .xinitrc.
>
> there's got to be a better way ::)
>
> even though gconfd-2 takes precedence, i can't just wipe gconf off of my
> system... but if i:
> rm /usr/X11R6/bin/gconfd-1
> ln /usr/X11R6/libexec/gconfd-2 /usr/X11R6/bin/gconfd-1
>
> then everything seems happy.
>
> i mean, a wrapper would be really easy to construct for gconfd-1... but
> i still assume i'm just missing the point here and going way far out of
> my way.
>
> what should i do to make sure that gconfd-2 starts up, and not gconfd-1?
Well I'll be damned. They broke it. They moved gconfd-2 to
${X11BASE}/libexec. Therefore, gconf can't find it. I'll get a patch
for this, and ask portmgr@ if I can commit it.
Joe
>
> -Adam
>
>
> --
> "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw."
> -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch"
> Adam Weinberger
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>
>
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