Re: Can't run gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.1-1 on 10.5.6

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Dave Reiser wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Richard Cobbe <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Dec 24, 2008 10:32 PM
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: [gnome-core] Can't run gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.1-1 on 10.5.6
> >
> >In the interests of reproducible results:
> >  - I updated to 10.5.6.
> >  - I started gnucash, which failed with a libXdamage error.
> >  - I re-installed Xquartz 2.2.3.
> >  - I logged out & logged back in, then started gnucash.  This could not
> >    find preferences.
> >  - I started gnome-settings-daemon manually, which failed as described
> >    earlier.
> >  - All of the above was on my desktop, but I was able to repeat it
> >    (roughly speaking) on my laptop.
> >  - After a couple of power cycles on the laptop (required because I was on
> >    a plane, not for software issues), I started gnucash, and it seems to
> >    be able to find stuff without difficulty.  These power cycles are
> >    graceful shutdowns, not forced resets.
> >
> >I haven't yet tried rebooting the desktop, and I don't want to try that
> >remotely, since I'm not sure what effect it'll have on the VNC server.  But
> >I'm optimistic that it'll work when I return home in a few days.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Richard
>
> I may be out-to-lunch, but I think the need for reboot had more to do
> with gnome-settings-daemon than xquartz. The few times I was trying to do
> things with g-s-d manually, things didn't seem to work right until I
> rebooted. For me "things" almost always have to do with gconf settings
> for gnucash. I certainly can't prove it, but I've convinced myself on
> limited data that I don't want to launch g-s-d manually.

I suspect you're right.  I didn't make it clear above, but when I logged in
after rebooting, my normal startup routines kicked in.  Specifically,
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app started as normal on login, and it ran
~/.x-startup, also as normal (due to the app_to_run setting in Xquartz's
preferences).  This script sources /sw/bin/init.sh and then starts g-s-d as
a daemon.

Also, I originally noticed the problems with g-s-d when it was being
started by the normal X login mechanism.

If this counts as launching g-s-d manually, Dave, then I'd love to know a
better way to launch it.  As I said (vented, really) up-thread, I've had
lots of problems with g-s-d over the last few months, and if there's a
better way to run it, I'd love to hear about it.  (I would prefer to avoid
running the entire Gnome desktop environment, though.)

I've attached my .x-startup script just so everyone can how I normally
start g-s-d.  I added the xscreensaver line because g-s-d, at least at one
point, always started the xscreensaver daemon, even though I've disabled it
in the appropriate gnome-control-center dialog.  I have no idea if it still
does this.

Richard

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#!/bin/bash
cd $HOME
/usr/X11/bin/xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
if [[ -r /sw/bin/init.sh ]]; then
	. /sw/bin/init.sh
	/sw/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon &
	(sleep 30; /sw/bin/xscreensaver-command -exit) &
fi
PATH=/usr/X11/bin:$PATH /usr/X11/bin/uxterm &

## For old-style X startup, when the X server exits just after this
## script terminates:
## exec /usr/bin/quartz-wm