Re: Mail-builtin: Not launching e-mail program
Niklaus Kuehnis <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote: > Ubuntu 8.04.1, Blackbox, Gkrellm 2.3.1 > > I'm using the mail-builtin to check one imap server and two local mbox files. > > When I click the button on the mail-builtin (where the number of new messages > shows) my e-mail program launches. The command is > > xterm -e alpine -i -passfile /home/myself/.alpine-passfile > > The problem is this doesn't work after opening alpine through gkrellm and > closing it again. After that the mail-builtin button doesn't have any effect. > > Alpine doesn't run in the background, though, and it can be opened by the > usual command outside of gkrellm. > > killall gkrellm; gkrellm -w > > fixes the problem for the next try. > > To reproduce the bug: > [have some mailboxes and a mailreader configured] > gkrellm -w > click on the mail-builtin to launch the mailreader > close the mailreader > click on the mail-builtin to launch the mailreader > > Result here: nothing happens. Setting "allow multiple launches of the mail reader" to true is an effective workaround. There isn't any second instance of alpine running, though. Does gkrellm possibly check for a running "xterm" in this case? -- Niklaus ______________________________________________ Gkrellm mailing list [email protected] Read archives-join-leave-set RSS feed: http://archive.lists.netservicesgroup.com