Re: building gworkspace in a debian system where other components exist

[Dan Hitt]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
.......
> Perhaps you need to "source" GNUstep.sh before starting windowmaker.
> If you start your session with a display manager like xdm, you might want to
> add it to .xinitrc for example.
>
> Before starting anything, if you choose "run" from the windowmaker menu, are
> you bale to start GNUstep applications? Like "openapp GWorkspace" from
> there. If that works, then you are on the right track of having everythign
> setup and not needing to rely on the command-line to start up your apps.
>
> Riccardo

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Germán A. Arias <german@xelalug.org> wrote:
.....
>
> Close GWorkspace and then do a right click above the Gworkspace icon at
> dock. I suppose you will see the 6 items menu including "Settings".
> Select "Setting". Now in the field that have the command to open
> GWorkspace, write the absolute path to gworkspace (something
> like: /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/GWorkspace.app/GWorkspace), save
> the changes and try again. Hope this help.


Thanks Germán and Riccardo for your help and diagnostics.

Germán --- the path was already correct, so it's kind of mysterious to
me why that is not enough.

Riccardo --- i followed your suggestion and put the "source" command
(. /home/......./Makefiles/GNUstep.sh) in my ~/.xsession file.

That must have been the missing piece, because now gworkspace comes up
when i double click its icon in the dock.

So thanks to both of you very much.

Riccardo --- your suggestion of disabling gworkspace's dock indeed
hides the two incompletely drawn icons (the extra gworkspace icon
and the recycler icon).

But now i don't have any recycler.  That's probably ok for now, and i can
try to follow your suggestion of disabling  window maker's dock instead.

So, i'll fiddle around with it some more.

BTW, my main goal is to get a reasonable GNUstep environment running,
and i don't have to use Window Maker with it.

If there is a window manager with a closer fit to GNUstep than
Window Maker, please recommend it!

Thanks all for your help!!

dan