Re: Etoile on Solaris

[Andreas Höschler]

Hello CHris,

> [...]
> > We did that and I can select Azalea from the dtlogin menu now. 
> > However, if I
> > log in I get a black screen with a xterm window only. If I enter
> >         openapp EtoileMenuServer.app
>
> Is your $HOME/.xsession executable?

It was not, but now it is.

> And does the xterm have window decoration, like Resize, Close, etc?

Yes!

> > in the xterm window I get
> >         Critcal Error in EtoileMenuServer
> >         NSUndefinedKeyException: Unable to find value for key
>
> Someone else posted a message about this problem a while ago. You 
> might want to browse through Etoile's discuss list.

Got it. This was my fault. We downloaded GNUstep from cvs not from svn. 
It took us a while to realize, that cvs is no longer updated (year old 
sources). :-(

> > When I try "openapp LookAndBehavior.app" I get
> [...]
> > We have just installed the latest GNUstep sources (base, gui, back). 
> > This did
> > not help. Do we have to install Gorm as well for this to work?
>
> No you do not, nib loading is handled by GNUstep. I have never run 
> LookAndBehaviour.app, so I can only guess. Could be the nib (the .gorm 
> file) is broken or missing.

As mentioned this was due to old GNUstep sources from cvs. 
LookAndBehaviour does start now but it does not seem to do anything 
useful yet!? :-(


> > I also have no dock. We were using WindowMaker before and used its 
> > dock. I
> > guess Azalea has no dock on its own and we have to build GWorkspace 
> > to get a
> > dock again. Is that correct?
>
> I've seen it mentioned that Azalea has a dock, but I never tried to 
> find out for sure, as I was using GWorkspace's dock which works 
> reasonably fine.

I will try that.

I just realized that popups do not work in conjunctions with Etoile. If 
in a modal dialog the selection pops up behind the model window. If 
used in a non-modal window the popup pops up ver the window (correct). 
But there seems to be an update problem. ThesringValue of the popup is 
not updated after making a selection. This problem does not occur if I 
do not load the Etoile bundle!? Can anybody confirm this bug?

Regards,

  Andreas