Re: Trying out the GTK2-based stuff?

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 15:49, Boris Shingarov wrote:
> I am confused.
>
> I want to take a look at the GTK2-based apps. So I got a
> bare 0.6.1 (no ui stuff), changed the feed to unstable,
> "ipkg upgraded" to unstable, and then installed libgtk2.0
> and a bunch of things like gpe-login2, gpe-appmgr2, gpe-
> calendar2, and so on. Question: what is the step I am
> missing? Because none of the stuff wants to work, neither
> locally nor even if I set DISPLAY to point to my desktop X
Well, what is the error message(s), if any? Run the stuff from the
console.

> server. (Btw: I need an X server on the iPAQ, right? But
Yes, most definately.

> if try to install it, it will want an xdm and will grab the
> whole gtk1 series of things that I don't want???)
You can probably install nullxdm if you don't want a DM, but I believe
that gpe-dm can be installed happily without the gtk1 GPE. (I have it
installed, and I *think* it was installed happily... or is there a
gpe-dm2... I can't remember ATM :)

Don't forget to install gdk-pixbuf-loader-xpm and gdk-pixbuf-loader-png
if you haven't already.

As I found out recently, the /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders file must
have useful information. (There's a gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders command or
something similar, run that and pipe the output to that file if it's not
useful).

I *think* that's the sum of GTK2 things to remember...

mibus

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