Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-04 Thread Allen Halsey
Jonathan Ryshpan pacbell.net> writes: > > It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible > to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example > evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE. > > But how? Here's the invocation chain from login down to evolution

Re: Firefox launcher option %u cause of "Starting Firefox Web Browser" button?

2008-11-30 Thread Allen Halsey
>> Why is the %u launcher option causing this poor user experience? > Not at all. Firefox is always slow to start, no matter what command > line options you specify :) One thing you can do to speed up a > little its start up is to disable all the language packs you don't > use. Are you using KDE

Gnome Sessions Preferences - Remember Currently Running Applications - Work?

2008-11-30 Thread Allen Halsey
On Fedora 10, I was trying to find a way to get gnome to automatically start my usual applications, and figured System > Preferences > Personal > Sessions > Options would be a good place to start. I launched my applications, placed then on different workspaces and sized them according to my wishe

Firefox launcher option %u cause of "Starting Firefox Web Browser" button?

2008-11-30 Thread Allen Halsey
When I launch Firefox from the Applications Menu, there always appears a 2nd button on the Window List bar saying "Starting Firefox Web Browser". It stays there for about 15 seconds. And the mouse pointer is busy during this time. This gives me the impression that Firefox starts very slow on Fedo