Subject: Re: 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: 05/11/2001 23:21:47
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:40:24PM +0300, ext Ylitalo Juha . O wrote:
> 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.
...
> 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
Just as an update, this one got solved as soon as I went to
/usr/pkg/bin and did "ln -s navigator netscape". For some reason, none
of my packages (navigator/gnome-libs) had done it. :(
What comes to my other problem (getting gnome-session to start
sawfish), its still total mystery to me...
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Juha Ylitalo juha.o.ylitalo@nokia.com <work e-mail>
"Some tools are used, because its policy, others because they are good."