Re: gst-register question

[Matt Rose <mattrose folkwolf net>]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Ivan Noris wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> > > each other user will get problems regarding sound (does not work etc.), unless
> > > he/she runs gst-register in his/her shell.
> >
> >
> > This is a GARNOME-semi-specific issue -- because we install all of our
> > configuration files to a separate prefix (ie. not /etc) -- running
> > gst-register from a system account will find no information to update.
>
> Well, I'm installing as root (do not bomb me :) and this means I have
> proper paths set in environment when running gst-register (post-install
> in gst-* package). The user which logs into GNOME has the same paths...
>
> I have not explored this thoroughly, because running gst-register is a
> good workaround and placing it into the session script would be enough
> for working in multi-user environment, although I don't like it ;)

You could write a script that gets run from /etc/bash_profile, or whatever 
startup script your user uses that does something like

if [ -e $HOME/registry.xml ]
	exit
else
	gst-register
fi

that way, it'll try and detect to see if gstreamer has a valid registry, 
and if so, not run gst-register.  It's slightly ugly, but adding one file 
test on login shouldn't add too much cruft

> > > This surely happens when migrating user to next major GNOME release (2.6 ->
> > > 2.8 and 2.8 -> 2.9 (2.10) in my case).
> >
> >
> > In GARNOME though, it only happens when you build one of the
> > GStreamer-related packages.
>
> Yes, of course. But when I build Garnome, there are such packages.
>
> I hope I will have some time these days to explore this thing.
>
> Many thanks anyway and regards,
> Ivan

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