On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 21:38, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > A Debian user filed a bug report the details of which are at > http://bugs.debian.org/269107 > > I can replicate his problem: the R/Gnome entry that is made available to the > various window managers fails. A window pops, and exists. > > As far as I can tell, the menuing system does not have a problem with shell > script wrapper. Environment variables like PATH, DISPLAY etc should be set > too. So the best idea I am having now is that R _may_ think that > interactive() is FALSE when it should in fact be TRUE. > > Does anybody have a) other ideas, and fixes, or b) an idea how I could > correct the menuing system? > > Dirk
Dirk, FWIW, I can replicate this behavior using a CVS build of XFCE4 (V4.1.3), which uses xfwm4 as the window manager and not metacity. This is on an FC2 system which otherwise has GNOME 2.6. I recompiled R 1.9.1 patched to use the GNOME GUI. If I run it from a bash shell, it is fine. If I try to run it from the XFCE4 run dialog or add it to the desktop menu, it pops up briefly and then closes. If I specify that the R session should run in a terminal, it opens a regular R terminal console, but no GNOME GUI. I created a shell script file (test.sh) with the command. I use ROX for my FM, which has the "run action" for scripts set to "sh ScriptFile". If I click on the file, the R window pops up briefly and then clears. I can however, run the script from a console using either "sh test.sh" or "./test.sh" without problem. So this behavior is not limited to GNOME/metacity and seems to be environmental as you suggest. Not sure if that helps, other than adding some confirmatory data points. Best regards, Marc ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
