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Date:      27 Sep 2002 00:23:27 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gconfd-1 and gnome2, and the faq
Message-ID:  <1033100611.1161.53.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020927041536.GU77771@vectors.cx>
References:  <20020926111613.GQ77771@vectors.cx> <1033089964.756.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>  <20020927041536.GU77771@vectors.cx>

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On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 00:15, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> >> (09.26.2002 @ 1826 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 2.1K: <<
> > Nope.  If you have the latest versions of gconf and gconf2 installed,
> > then gconfd-2 will be used instead of gconfd-1.  This solves the
> > problem.  gconfd-2 is backwards compatible.
> 
> i have the latest versions of both installed, but use fvwm2-devel as my
> window manager. often the first gnome app to start in my X session is
> galeon. as soon as galeon fires up, so does gconfd-1.
> 
> monkey@smacky:~% killall galeon-bin; killall gconfd-{1,2}; galeon&
> monkey@smacky:~% ps auxw|grep gconf
> monkey 22989  0.0  0.6  3900 2996  p5  SN    9:08PM   0:00.06 /usr/X11R6/bin/gconfd-1 8
> 
> so far, i've just added:
> 	gnome-control-center &
> 	sleep 5 && killall gnome-control-center &
> to my .xinitrc.
> 
> there's got to be a better way ::)
> 
> even though gconfd-2 takes precedence, i can't just wipe gconf off of my
> system... but if i:
> 	rm /usr/X11R6/bin/gconfd-1
> 	ln /usr/X11R6/libexec/gconfd-2 /usr/X11R6/bin/gconfd-1
> 
> then everything seems happy.
> 
> i mean, a wrapper would be really easy to construct for gconfd-1... but
> i still assume i'm just missing the point here and going way far out of
> my way.
> 
> what should i do to make sure that gconfd-2 starts up, and not gconfd-1?

Well I'll be damned.  They broke it.  They moved gconfd-2 to
${X11BASE}/libexec.  Therefore, gconf can't find it.  I'll get a patch
for this, and ask portmgr@ if I can commit it.

Joe

> 
> -Adam
> 
> 
> --
> "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw."
>         -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch"
> Adam Weinberger
> adam@vectors.cx
> http://vectors.cx
> 
> 
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