On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Sean Stoner wrote:
> I've always installed both linuxconf and linuxconf-gui on all past
> installations, but I've now noticed that the redhat 5.1 installations don't
> have the linuxconf-gui package installed. What is the purpose of this
> package? Do I need to install it?
linuxconf-gui is one GUI front-end for linuxconf. When linuxconf
starts (graphic or text mode), it calls a script /bin/remadmin. This
script (very simple) checks if a X display is available (using the
DISPLAY) variable. If it is available, it tries to starts one GUI
front-end. Currently, it probes for /usr/bin/gnome-linuxconf (shipped
with redhat 5.1) and then /usr/X11R6/bin/wxxt-linuxconf (part of the
linuxconf-gui package). It picks the first it finds.
So on redhat 5.1, linuxconf-gui is not needed to have linuxconf runs in
graphic mode. Note that neither is needed to run linuxconf. I mean, if
remadmin can't find any front-end, it returns a message to linuxconf and
it falls back to the ncurses (text) interface.
Note that previous version of remadmin (before 1.12r6) were also checking
for a text front-end called gecko. This means that linuxconf user
interface may be overriden in text and gui mode using those front-end.
While gnome-linuxconf is ok, it lacks support for the treemenu mode. So
redhat 5.1 users may want to uninstall gnome-linuxconf and install
linuxconf-gui to experience with the treemenu mode (enable the treemenu
module to get it).
Note that the next release of gnome-linuxconf will support the treemenu
mode in a pretty cool way.
Hope this clarify the situation. To say it differently, on redhat 5.1,
even if you install linuxconf-gui, this has no effect as gnome-linuxconf
as priority (as seen in /bin/remadmin).
Have fun!
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Jacques Gelinas
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