From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 7:35: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu26-228-058.nc.rr.com [66.26.228.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7387137B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6CEYRM22282; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:34:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:34:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: Subject: Re: Starting applications in Gnome In-Reply-To: <86u20imt0t.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Message-ID: <20010712103231.A22271-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks like you have a problem with the xALF stuff. How did you install gnome? You might try recompiling /usr/ports/x11/xalf, and see if the problem goes away. xalf is the cute little application lauch feedback thing that pops up to let you know the system is doing something. This can also be disabled in the Gnome controlcenter. Joe Clarke On 12 Jul 2001, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to launch netscape and staroffice off the bar at the > bottom of my gnome screen. My window manager is icewm running under > gnome, and the netscape I am trying to launch was built from > /usr/ports/www/linux-netscape47-navigator/. The staroffice was built > >from /usr/ports/editors/staroffice-5.2 > > If I add a launcher to the bar and set the command to > /usr/local/bin/netscape, clicking the icon doesn't launch the > application. Looking at the window I started x from, I see the > following messages appear : > > /usr/local/lib/netscape-linux/navigator-linux-4.77.bin: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libxalflaunch.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid. > xalf: timeout launching /bin/sh > > If I tick the > Run in Terminal > box in the launcher properties, then a terminal is launched and the > application starts fine. It's only when this is not ticked. The same > situation applies to staroffice. > > Needless to say, terminals lying all over my desktop unneeded is > something I'd like to avoid :) Does anyone have any idea how I can fix > this ? > > Thanks, > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message