Hi Quentin, thanks again for your (quick) response.
>> • EtoileMenuServer does not completely come up (the star in the >> top/left is missing) >> • Clicking on any menu item hangs the whole environment >> >> Someone mentioned that the setup script does not work correctly in all >> cases. > > setup.sh works well if you can use sudo. It won't work well if you > aren't allowed to use sudo It seems so: Enter a number: 1 *** You will be prompted for a sudo password during installation *** Linking openapp in /usr/local/bin ./setup.sh: sudo: execute permission denied Linking defaults in /usr/local/bin ./setup.sh: sudo: execute permission denied Copying etoile.desktop in /usr/share/xsessions ./setup.sh: sudo: execute permission denied Generating startup script etoile ./setup.sh: /usr/src/Etoile-0.2/etoile: cannot create > or if you want to set up the environment > for several users in a single pass. Yes, that' what I want to do! > In your case, you probably ran ./setup.sh with root permission. Yes! > You should try to run it as the normal user that will use Étoilé and > type > '1' when setup.sh requests you to choose a deployement style. See above. It didn't like that. >> I would prefer to set things up manually >> >> • only setting the defaults accordingly >> • using themes and fonts from /opt/GNUstep/System/Library (no copy of >> the fonts/themse in any home directory) >> • ... >> >> Any idea what could have gone wrong on my machine? What is the minimun >> that has to be configured with "defaults write NSGlobalDomain ..." to >> get things working properly. I currently have > > Basically you need to do everything done in setup.sh (not only > setting the defaults) to get a usable environment, so I would > strongly advise to use setup.sh. The only point you can avoid is to > copy GNUstep tools in /usr/local/bin. The key steps are: > - settings defaults > - generating and installing 'etoile' startup script > - installing etoile.desktop > - installing SystemTaskList.plist > - downloading and installing fonts Thanks for the task list. I will try to extract the necessary commands from the script tonight! > I know setup.sh needs a lot of improvement. It's also on my roadmap > to defer many things done currently in setup.sh to the environment > launch time, it would make the installation less prone to failures. Yes, this woud help indeed! Thanks, Andreas _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
