Re: Mail-builtin: Not launching e-mail program

Niklaus Kuehnis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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