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Re: GNOME - startup scripts needed
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:44:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: GNOME - startup scripts needed
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <16510714624.20041006101207@familiehaase.de><4163B833.8000101@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit @ cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Hello Yaakov,
>> "As with GNOME 2.6, you must define the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
>> variable to the path at which your MIME database is installed, for
>> instance <prefix>/share."
>>
>> Now I thought that things like this need to be handled, and probably
>> the best would be to do such initial settings in the startup scripts
>> which are starting X / GNOME.
>>
>> However I'm not an experienced Linux / GNOME user and have no idea
>> what else needs to be in such a script. Do I start any of the
>> daemons, or is it just enough to start the GNOME window manager?
>>
>> You get the picture, what I'm really looking for is a package with
>> gnome-start-scripts in the style like the X startup-scripts to enable
>> the start from the shell (.sh) script and to enable starting from
>> explorer (.bat) windows shell via double click without ever opening a
>> Cygwin shell. "Cygwin? What is this good for? Wanna run GNOME!"
> Did you look at the BLFS book? From what I can tell, it looks like they
> just add "exec metacity" and "exec gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc and run
> startx. The entries for shared-mime-info and gnome-mime-data don't
> mention setting any environment variables. But then again, I've never
> tried, so I wouldn't know for sure.
I'll try that.
> BTW, any luck with libbonobo/GConf/VFS? Can we proceed with the
> existing ORBit2 port until we make sure that the changes we're making
> are correct? And BTW, I have a number of packages stalled in ITP from
> 29 Sept (in 2 emails); apparently once again I've struck on a lack of
> interest for these (admittedly not fascinating but) necessary GNOME prereqs.
It seems that the changes I made for ORBit werte sufficient to get it
to produce non crashing binaries. I need to build some more of the
base packages (currently running the vte build), then I'll start
testing. I think the idl-compiler njeeds to be patched to produce
code for running executables.
> I'll be busy now until next week; I'm uprading computers after the
> weekend and hope to be up and running sometime Monday or so. I plan to
> catch up on everything then ASAP, and in the meantime I hope you manage
> to get your packages figured out. We still have a LOT of work to do.
I have all my current builds uploaded (including the patched ORBit and
also newer libIDL packages): http://194.95.224.180/cygwin/test/
These together with the GNOME packages from your latest two ITP are
the GNOME desktop (well, as noted above, there are still some base
packages missing).
Gerrit
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