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



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