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List:       cygwin-apps
Subject:    Re: GNOME - startup scripts needed
From:       Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2004-10-06 9:17:39
Message-ID: 4163B833.8000101 () users ! sourceforge ! net
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Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just read at the gnome website about the cross-desktop MIME-type
> system.
> 
> "As with GNOME 2.6, you must define the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
> variable to the path at which your MIME database is installed, for
> instance <prefix>/share."
> 
> Now I thought that things like this need to be handled, and probably
> the best would be to do such initial settings in the startup scripts
> which are starting X / GNOME.
> 
> However I'm not an experienced Linux / GNOME user and have no idea
> what else needs to be in such a script.  Do I start any of the
> daemons, or is it just enough to start the GNOME window manager?
> 
> You get the picture, what I'm really looking for is a package with
> gnome-start-scripts in the style like the X startup-scripts to enable
> the start from the shell (.sh) script and to enable starting from
> explorer (.bat) windows shell via double click without ever opening a
> Cygwin shell.  "Cygwin? What is this good for? Wanna run GNOME!"

Did you look at the BLFS book?  From what I can tell, it looks like they 
just add "exec metacity" and "exec gnome-session" to ~/.xinitrc and run 
startx.  The entries for shared-mime-info and gnome-mime-data don't 
mention setting any environment variables.  But then again, I've never 
tried, so I wouldn't know for sure.

BTW, any luck with libbonobo/GConf/VFS?  Can we proceed with the 
existing ORBit2 port until we make sure that the changes we're making 
are correct?  And BTW, I have a number of packages stalled in ITP from 
29 Sept (in 2 emails); apparently once again I've struck on a lack of 
interest for these (admittedly not fascinating but) necessary GNOME prereqs.

I'll be busy now until next week; I'm uprading computers after the 
weekend and hope to be up and running sometime Monday or so.  I plan to 
catch up on everything then ASAP, and in the meantime I hope you manage 
to get your packages figured out.  We still have a LOT of work to do.


Yaakov
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