reassign 453918 totem retitle 453918 totem: Starts lots of GNOME stuff when run in WindowMaker thanks
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Thomas Perl wrote: > >> Can you remove gconfd temporarily and see if the problem persists? > > That would be pushing my luck a bit too far :) I see: > > # apt-get --purge remove libgconf2-4 > > making some 120 package dependencies being removed :( > >> If so, I suspect this might be a gconfd bug, or at least the gconfd >> maintainers should know why gconfd starts up when a pygtk application >> runs. gPodder doesn't require any Gnome-specific stuff and doesn't load >> any gnome/gconf-related things. It's only pure GTK/PyGTK, so I'm also >> puzzled as to why this happens. > > You mentioned in the other post: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Thomas Perl wrote: >> The culprit is totem, then. Totem is a "fully GNOME-ified" app. These >> changes and processes only start when you watch a video, right? > > Yes. Looks like that. > >> You might try to install xine or gmplayer and set xine/gmplayer as your >> preferred media player in gPodder's preferences. This way, when you >> click on "play" to play a video or audio file, xine/gmplayer get >> launched instead of totem, so no GNOME-ified app gets started :) >> >> Does using gmplayer or xine fix your problem? > > Yes. I changed to xine and killed again /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2. > I confirm the gnome stuff is no longer triggered. Tried vlc. That seems > to be fine too. > > So my experience may very well confirm your suspicion: > >> If so, I suspect this might be a gconfd bug, or at least the gconfd >> maintainers should know why gconfd starts up when a pygtk application >> runs. > > So, where do we go from here? I'll reassign the bug to the "totem" package, as this is the one that causes problems for you when using WindowMaker. It might be that totem _needs_ to load all that gnome stuff, so maybe this is not a real bug. I'll let the totem maintainers decide. Re-assigning to "totem". Thanks, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
