Re: [rox-users] xdm problems

[Ken H. <kh...@so...>]

Strange,  I sent this yesterday.  Just hit now.
Anyway, please disregard.  I clearly didn't read the entire original email.

:(

Ken Hayber wrote:
> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to set up XDM (to make it simpler for my girlfriend to login
>> on my box), but I'm having some problems.
>>
>> 1) I get "Applet quit without creating widget" by pager and panelclock:
>>
>> The pygtk2 package (1.99.13 or later) must be installed to use this
>> program:
>> http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_lib.php3
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/ROX-Apps/PanelClock/AppletRun", line 7, in ?
>>     import findrox; findrox.version(1,9,10)
>>   File "/ROX-Apps/PanelClock/findrox.py", line 43, in version
>>     import rox
>>   File "/ROX-Apps/ROX-Lib2/python/rox/__init__.py", line 93, in ?
>>     import gtk; g = gtk    # Don't syntax error for python1.5
>> ImportError: No module named gtk
>>
>> If I start python in an xterm and do "import gtk", then I get no errors.
>>
>> 2) My keyboard doesn't work correctly, to be specific the AltGr key does
>> the same thing as the Alt key, which means that I can't write '$' or '|'
>> for example, which makes it hard to work in the shell to try to solve
>> the problem... =/
> 
> 
> Could be this:
> ======================
> Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:44:12PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
>>
>>> Pager has occasionally been crashing on start-up and I tracked it down
>>> to its trying to read _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS and getting a NULL. My best
>>> guess is that there's a delay between ROX-Filer setting the property
>>> with gdk_property_change and other programs being able to read it. This
>>> is backed up by the crashes most often occurring if I log out of X and
>>> back in, so that Pager starts up quicker due to caching.
>>>
>>> Any ideas for a way round this? Do you think it would help to insert a
>>> gtk_main_iteration_do(FALSE) between setting the property and running
>>> the child?
>>
>>
>> I've added a gdk_flush() right after setting the properties. This should
>> ensure that they've actually been set before the applet is started.
> 
> ======================
> 
> In panel.c add gdk_flush() thus:
> 
>     gdk_property_change(pi->socket->window,
>         gdk_atom_intern("_ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS", FALSE),
>         gdk_atom_intern("STRING", FALSE),
>         8, GDK_PROP_MODE_REPLACE,
>         pos, strlen(pos));
>     gdk_flush();
>     g_free(pos);
> 
> 

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Ken Hayber (kh...@so...)
Huntington Beach, CA