Subject: NetBSD and GNOME (problems with sawfish and navigator)
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Ylitalo Juha . O <juha.o.ylitalo@nokia.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/10/2001 19:40:24
Hardware: IBM Thinkpad 600 (i386 architecture)
Software: NetBSD 1.5 

Last week I installed NetBSD 1.5 into my laptop, grabbed the current
pkgsrc (May 7) from netbsd.org, installed sawfish 0.38, gnome-core
1.4.0.2, (Netscape) navigator 4.77 and few other packages from
pkgsrc. All got nicely installed from source.

Once that was completed, I created user account for myself and made
~/.xinitrc for it, which had just one line in it:
exec gnome-session

Now I have two GNOME related problem in that system. One is about
Window Managers and another one is about Navigator.

First couple logins went nicely, but after I made changes to
gnome-terminal, I started to get Desk Guide Alert, which claimed that
I am not running GNOME compliant Window Manager and even though
control center still claimed that I am running sawfish, I was left
without any windowmanagers. ~/.xsession-errors show that system had
problems with esound, but thats not a problem at this point. I can
also live without DeskGuide, but I can't say same about
windowmanager. I have work-around to this by changing my ~/.xinitrc to
be:
sawfish &
exec gnome-session
but thats not a real solution, since things work just beatifully in
Linux and FreeBSD (where I still run GNOME 1.2.x).

With navigator my problem is that in Linux and FreeBSD environments,
the planet earth icon (gnome-moz-remote --newwin "") has always
launched Netscape without any kind of problems. However in my laptop, I get:
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1

Any ideas, what is causing those problems ?

--
Juha Ylitalo     juha.o.ylitalo@nokia.com                <work e-mail>
"Some tools are used, because its policy, others because they are good."