Re: running GWorkspace with no notification server on the x windows display server

[Martin Brecher]

Dan Hitt wrote:
> I've built gnustep on a linux machine A, following the gnustep build
> guide (as it existed on 4/4/2003) (and with the help of Nicola:
> thanks again for your help).
>
> The x windows display i'm using is on a netbsd machine B which has no
> knowledge of gnustep (and the window manager is running on another
> netbsd machine C which also has no knowledge of gnustep, but which
> is running window maker version 0.62.1).

I'm not sure about gdnc, but gpbs honours a -NSHost parameter which is 
similiar to the -display parameter of X11 applications. Maybe you can 
run gdnc on the display where GWorkspace is also running?


> I've got gdomap and gdnc running on machine A (and per the build guide
> i'm running gdomap with the -p option so that it shouldn't probe
> other machines).
>
> I'm trying to run GWorkspace (0.5.1) but i get lots of alert
> panels giving messages such as
>    Critical Error in GWorkspace
>       NSInternalInconsistencyException: unable to contact GDNC server -
>         please check that the gdnc process is running
>    Critical Error in GWorkspace
>       NSRecursiveLockException: unlock: failed to unlock mutex
>    Critical Error in GWorkspace
>       NSPortTimeoutException: invalidated while awaiting reply
>
> (I have some other errors also, no doubt due to incomplete paths
> for locating other applications.)
>
> So: is there documentation somewhere for gdnc (and gdomap)?  After
> building, the directories
> ..../System/Documentation/{Developer,info,man,User}
> are all unpopulated.

I have submitted a manpage for gdomap recently which should be in cvs by 
now. Alternatively you can issue gdomap -H and gdomap -C to get some help.
Manpages for gdnc, etc are on my list...

> Any advice on what to do about gdnc?  (I'd greatly prefer not to have to
> build gdnc on machines B or C, because everything about them is different
> from A, and even if i'm able to, i imagine that gnustep is still in
> a state of rapid evolution.  If it would really help, i guess i could
> run the window manager from A, and maybe use a later version of
> window maker.)
>
> Finally, i really appreciate the effort Enrico, Fabien, and Alexey
> have put into GWorkspace.  It looks like it has the capabilities
> that a file manager should have (at least for those of us who
> grew up on NeXTstep).  It also has some nice touches (such as
> the Edit options being grayed out (presumably because i don't yet
> have the pasteboard server running)---the only major capability
> i think it might not yet have is being able to run multiple browsers
> (?? but maybe it can do this, or there's some good reason why it's
> not desirable ??).

Recent GWorkspace CVS can open another browser. Currently, it's opened 
at the root path and not at the current directory (have to check 
Openstep behaviour in this regard again).


> Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers to faqs, manuals, info pages,
> urls or whatever.
>
> dan

- Martin