Re: Evolution is missing icons in GUI and crashes - maybe dbus issue

[Ronald Roskens <ronr%econet.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:19 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 1:22 PM, Ronald Roskens <ronr%econet.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:20 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
> > > On Jan 17, 2008 1:10 PM, Ronald Roskens <ronr%econet.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:37 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
> > > > > On Jan 17, 2008 11:30 AM, Ronald Roskens <ronr%econet.com@localhost> 
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 09:18 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
> > > > > > > 2)  The icons for evolution are still missing.  I installed 
> > > > > > > evolution
> > > > > > > via pkg_add (so all of the relevant dependencies should have been
> > > > > > > installed.  I checked that gnome-desktop is installed.  Still no
> > > > > > > icons.  It's as if they either don't exist or permissions are not
> > > > > > > correct (but launching as root no icons either).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you have the gnome-settings-daemon running? If not, then that is
> > > > > > likely the cause of evolution not showing any icons.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ron
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe not...how do I start it (or check the status) in NetBSD?  I
> > > > > don't think I have my paths set correctly for the sh shell, so I need
> > > > > the absolute path.  I assume if it's not running, I can have it setup
> > > > > to run at system start as well?
> > > >
> > > > $ ps auxww |grep gnome-settings-daemon
> > > >
> > > > /usr/pkg/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
> > > >
> > > > Its a per-user process, so it should run from your .xsession
> > > > or .xinitrc. If your running the gnome desktop, it should be started
> > > > automatically. I run KDE, so I have a shell script in ~/.kde/env/ which
> > > > starts it when I login under KDE.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > gnome-settings-daemon does not exist at that location on my machine.
> > > Funny that it was not installed as a dependency when evolution,
> > > epiphany, and other packages were installed.  What package provides
> > > this?  I'm running KDE as well.
> >
> > x11/gnome-control-center
> >
> 
> After installing gnome-control-center (still confused as to why that
> was not done as a dependency of other packages like Evolution) I
> cannot launch gnome-settings-daemon.  If I issue:
> '/usr/pkg/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon start' from a console, I get
> an error stating 'Xlib: connection to ":0:0" refused by server' and
> 'Xlib: No protocol specified'

Its not a program you run as root from the console.

Since your using KDE:

Create a file ~/.kde/env/gnome-settings-daemon.sh containing:

==== start of file ====
#!/bin/sh

/usr/pkg/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
==== end of file ====

$ chmod 755 ~/.kde/env/gnome-settings-daemon.sh

log out from KDE, log back in. If you dont want to do that, then open up
a terminal window, and type
"nohup /usr/pkg/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &"

Ron