Re: [PATCH] jhbuild and question

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Jaap Haitsma wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today was the first time that I tried to build gnome with jhbuild. (A
> very nice tool I have to say). This is also the first time I submit a
> patch. So if I do something wrong please tell me.

Patches should be submitted in a bug report to bugzilla

<snip>

> I also have a question. In the documentation of jhbuild it says that I
> need to add jhbuild run gnome-session to a session script of gdm. In the
> version of gdm I use (2.6.0.3 in Debian sid) works .desktop so I thought
> I set the exec field to "jhbuild run gnome-session" but that doesn't
> work the session dies immediately and the log says that gdm could not
> run the command. If I put /opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session instead gnome
> starts. (In my case still not completely OK, because nautilus crashes
> immediately). So should I put /opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session or should it
> work with jhbuild?

This is off-topic for desktop-devel-list, but see
http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/html/ch04s04.html
(which I need to update and just replace '2.5' with 'CVS')

> I guess the safest thing is to make a seperate account for when I log
> into gnome cvs, right?? I'm afraid that the cvs version can add or
> change settings on my normal account such that gnome 2.6 will not start
> anymore on that account. Or shouldn't I be afraid for this??

Also off-topic, but yes a separate account is the safest (I usually don't
care because the odds of problems are small, at least in my experience)


Elijah