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Subject: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support
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>Number:         28458
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 27 09:40:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Merryweather Cooper
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD johncoop.MSHOME 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #18: Tue Jun 26 11:23:19 PDT 2001 jmcoopr@johncoop.MSHOME:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JOHNCOOP i386


	
>Description:
	With Gnome-1.4, it is no longer possible to start Linux X ports such as
	WordPerfect, StarOffice, RealPlayer, Linux-Netscape, etc. from a menu.
	Doing so results in a failure to start the application with various
	errors that seem to indicate that the Linux ports are looking for a
	Linux version of Xalf.  /compat/linux does not provide such support,
	and so these (and similar) applications refuse to start from a menu.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Just attempt to start any Linux X port . . .

>Fix:

	The work-around is to start Linux X ports from an xterm command prompt,
	but this is ugly and sort of defeats the purpose of having X in the
	first place.  Bottom line, /compat/linux's X support needs to be
	updated!
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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