On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:34:50PM -0400, David Reiser wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Richard Cobbe wrote: > >> I'm confused about how preference settings in Gnome apps, specifically >> fonts in Gnucash2, work. I hope someone here can shed some light on the >> matter for me. > > Something has to poke gnome, or more specifically, launch the > gnome-settings-daemon. Otherwise, the programs can't get to the settings. > The screensaver seems to be a separate process that doesn't use the daemon, > even though the screensaver process is launched automatically when > launching control-center or the daemon.
Ok, I figured it was something like this. <SNIP> > You can poke gnome prior to running gnucash by: > > /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon & > gnucash That works fine -- thanks! I'll have to see about getting this started automatically when I load X. Incidentally, running the gnome-settings-daemon in the background as above didn't cause the XScreensaver daemon to start, but I think this is probably because I previously turned the Gnome screensaver off in the relevant dialog of the gnome control center. IME, XScreensaver doesn't work well as an X client on Macs. As best I can remember, it goes active if you haven't interacted with the X server in the last N minutes; user interaction with non-X apps doesn't prevent the screensaver from coming active. Additionally, I vaguely remember having some trouble getting XScreensaver to let go of the screen when it came up, but it's been a while. I'm not really concerned about the XScreensaver problems -- if I want XScreensaver, I'll use the native Mac build rather than the one in Fink. Thanks a bunch for your help! Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
