Re: Is GNOME killing all gnustep apps?

[Nicolas Roard]

On 9/28/05, Keeron Ögren <dev@logia.se> wrote:
> This is strange - seems like a major bug on gnome - or
> it might just be a feature. If i make a starter on the
> gnome panel with a "open GNUMail" as a example - it
> never works.
(snip)
> You can open a terminal and run aps without any
> problem - but launching the app is imposible - perhaps
> its the session manager - the most strange thing is
> that I cant find a single note about this on the web -

It's indeed very likely the session manager -- more exactly,
GNUstep apps need to have specific env variables correctly
set, which is done by sourcing GNUstep.sh before running them.
If GNUstep.sh is not sourced by the session manager then
it won't work.

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Nicolas Roard
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