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Re: Error while building Preferences.app


From: Patrick Cardona
Subject: Re: Error while building Preferences.app
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:44:30 +0200
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On 2008-05-22 09:53:56 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:


On 21 May 2008, at 18:11, Patrick Cardona wrote:

My interest with Terminal.app is founded upon the ability to use services to send text or URL from app to app. I founded this very convenient in the previous install of GNUstep I made from deb. I think all of this was related to Terminal.app,because these services are nomore avaible, --- and I don't have Terminal.app installed.

Maybe ... but maybe it was not Terminal related. The GNUstep gui examples contain a service for opening a URL ... perhaps this was previously installed? The example also provides conversion of text to upper or lower case and generation of an md5 hash of text.

Sure thing, I can't paste from Firefox or xterm to an GNUstep app like GNUMail. I would appreciate it. Maybe when we'll get a GNUsteized browser. ? Is the Vespucci.app project going on ?

I can paste from Firefox and rxvt into a GNUstep app. I just tried with Ink.app

You do need to use the standard X mechanism (click middle mouse button) to paste. Using the paste menu item or key shortcut will only paste in the last thing cut/copied from a GNUstep app. This is because the X system won't tell the app about the selected text in the non-gnustep app until you click the middle mouse button.

Cut and paste of text should just work ... so if there are cases when it doesn't, it would be good to figure out what setup or sequence of events can stop it working, and fix any problem.


Well just paste from the middle button work from Xterm to Firefox and vice versa, but not from Xterm or Firefox to Affiche.aa, for example, what I remember doing in the past. So effectively something is broken with my present GNUstep build. Don't know if that is the matter, but I can tell other problems I did not see before : - While moving a file in GWorkspace, I murt wait a few seconds before I can move the Icon. Then, the first time, I get an error :

"ddbd connection died"

The second time, no more error. The same error happens while renaming or moving to the Recycler or Alt+d (all seem related to a move function, isn't it ? I think of this because I think the DND is related to the same server that deals with PasteBoard (gpbs ???))

In SystemPreferences, I can see some odd things :
No string to define the Backend : GSBackend : (empty)
I tried also to move GSOlClipboard to NO or YES : nothing did change.

GNUstep.sh is sourced within xsession and after in every Xterm within .bashrc. So it is sourced twice more than zero.

Patrick





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