Re: [Fink-users] Gnome preference settings -- odd behavior

[Richard C. <co...@cc...>]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:34:50PM -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>
> On Mar 15, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
>> I'm confused about how preference settings in Gnome apps, specifically
>> fonts in Gnucash2, work.  I hope someone here can shed some light on the
>> matter for me.
>
> Something has to poke gnome, or more specifically, launch the
> gnome-settings-daemon. Otherwise, the programs can't get to the settings.
> The screensaver seems to be a separate process that doesn't use the daemon,
> even though the screensaver process is launched automatically when
> launching control-center or the daemon.

Ok, I figured it was something like this.

<SNIP>

> You can poke gnome prior to running gnucash by:
>
> /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon &
> gnucash

That works fine -- thanks!  I'll have to see about getting this started
automatically when I load X.

Incidentally, running the gnome-settings-daemon in the background as above
didn't cause the XScreensaver daemon to start, but I think this is probably
because I previously turned the Gnome screensaver off in the relevant
dialog of the gnome control center.

IME, XScreensaver doesn't work well as an X client on Macs.  As best I can
remember, it goes active if you haven't interacted with the X server in the
last N minutes; user interaction with non-X apps doesn't prevent the
screensaver from coming active.  Additionally, I vaguely remember having
some trouble getting XScreensaver to let go of the screen when it came up,
but it's been a while.

I'm not really concerned about the XScreensaver problems -- if I want
XScreensaver, I'll use the native Mac build rather than the one in Fink.

Thanks a bunch for your help!

Richard