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



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.

Thanks



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