Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:35:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support Message-ID: <200106271635.f5RGZe130864@johncoop.MSHOME>
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>Number: 28458 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 27 09:40:01 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: John Merryweather Cooper >Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD johncoop.MSHOME 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #18: Tue Jun 26 11:23:19 PDT 2001 jmcoopr@johncoop.MSHOME:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JOHNCOOP i386 >Description: With Gnome-1.4, it is no longer possible to start Linux X ports such as WordPerfect, StarOffice, RealPlayer, Linux-Netscape, etc. from a menu. Doing so results in a failure to start the application with various errors that seem to indicate that the Linux ports are looking for a Linux version of Xalf. /compat/linux does not provide such support, and so these (and similar) applications refuse to start from a menu. >How-To-Repeat: Just attempt to start any Linux X port . . . >Fix: The work-around is to start Linux X ports from an xterm command prompt, but this is ugly and sort of defeats the purpose of having X in the first place. Bottom line, /compat/linux's X support needs to be updated! >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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