On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 10:00 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 15:13 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > thee's some daemon process that needs to be running in order to notify > > gtk to update fonts/themes/etc I just have no idea what it's called. > > > > gnome-settings-daemon perhaps? > > Yeah thats it. > > Its kind of a stupid idea imo. I thought thats the sort of crap the > registry (aka gconf) was for. > > Just hardcode something in your gtkrc file, whatever its called this > week (.gtkrc-2.0 i think).
Well, this is where it gets confusing! Remember that I'm running Evolution from a server which is running Slackware 10.0 and no graphical apps on the server's own display. The remote (client) display is currently RedHat 9 (which I need to upgrade, and I'm not to keen on going to Fedora) running Gnome 2.0. (yes I know strictly speaking for X apps the server's on the client machine and the client runs on the server, but ignore that for the moment! :-) It seems that the reason I get the "You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting" error when trying to start gnome-settings- daemon on the server is because it somehow detects I'm running Gnome on the client machine. Now, what's the correct behaviour in this situation (server with remote display)? I would have expected the server application (in this case Evolution) to pick up settings (such as font to use) from the server itself, as it can't make any assumptions about what the client is, other than it being able to render basic graphics objects; all the 'intelligence' is server-side. Currently it seems that Evolution's doing neither - it's not picking up font settings from the server on which it's run (e.g from a .gtkrc or .gtkrc-2.0 file), but neither is it picking up my preferred font from the desktop environment on the client display. Maybe everything will work automagically if I upgrade the remote display machine to the same version of Gnome as installed on the server? Although it seems I may have found a good reason for having the ability for the user to change font preferences within Evo for menus, folder view, message list etc. as well as just the message display? For giggles I might try a real XTerminal as a remote display sometime and see what happens :-) (for what it's worth I'm impressed with Evo 1.5 despite the font problems; it's certainly a lot more stable and feels more responsive than 1.4 did) cheers, Jules _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
