RE: WindowMaker Dock problem

[Chris Vetter]

On 2007-03-10 00:42:19 +0100 Nicola Pero 
<nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com> wrote:
> You need to provide us with more information on your environment. ;-)
> Anyway, it looks like you are on GNU/Linux, and are trying to
> start up an application without sourcing GNUstep.sh.  Good. :-)
> If so, did you add /opt/GNUstep/Local/Libraries and 
> /opt/GNUstep/System/Libraries to your /etc/ld.so.conf ?  Did you run 
> ldconfig 
> as root ?

No, IIRC he's on Solaris, so there wouldn't be /etc/ld.so.conf.

> If you want to avoid sourcing GNUstep.sh, you need to run ldconfig
> every time you install a new library.  That's the "native" pain you
> suffer for going "native". ;-)

Adding the path(s) to crle(1) once would do the trick.

> -----Original Message-----
[...]
> Starting the appication with 
> "/opt/GNUstep/Local/Applications/SmartClient.app/SmartClient" from 
> the 
> command line works. However, doubleclicking the item does not. The 
> application won't start. :-(  I am stuck. Even trashingthe icon and 
> recreating it by startingthe app from the command line and 
> draggingthe icon 
> to the dock does nt help. All I can do is manually editing the start 
> command 
> to be "openapp SmartCLient.app" then it works. But I don't want to do 
> that 
> for 7 apps and 30 users. Any idea why thi sno longer works. 
> "/opt/GNUstep/Local/Applications/SmartClient.app/SmartClient" should 
> do, 
> shouldn't it. What can be the difference between startingthe app from 
> the 
> command line and clickingthe window maker dock icon?

Yes it should do.
It might be a good idea the try and find out what the application (or 
GNUstep) is dumping to the console or syslog during startup of the 
application as to why it fails.
Where and when does the GNUstep.[c]sh get sourced in? If you don't 
want to add the sourcing to the users' profile files, you could add it 
to the system wide profile in /etc.
How does WindowMaker get started? You might want to consider adding 
the sourcing to that startup procedure, right before WM gets launched.

--
Chris