Re: keyboard not working in GWorkspace and other smaller problems

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 Aug 2006, at 07:22, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running GNUstep on OpenBSD. I changed the .xsession to start  
> GWorkspace
> automatically after login:
>  . /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
> export PATH=/sbin:$PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries
> exec openapp GWorkspace
>
> I can open a terminal with Alt+t, other shortcuts seem to work as  
> well, but
> when I try to enter commands into the xterm window, the system is only
> beeping, and nothing more. Furthermore the xterm window has no  
> window title
> bar, therefore I am unable to move it around the desktop as I  
> cannot pick it
> in the title bar. Pressing Alt and clicking somewhere in the window  
> doesn't
> work either.
>
> I have
> NSGlobalDomain GSX11HandlesWindowDecorations NO
> I tried to set this to YES, but then every window lacks the title  
> bar, not
> only the terminal windows.

That sounds like a window manager problem ... if an xterm is not  
getting keyboard events or a title bar then most likely no window  
manager is running.  Perhpas when you changed the startup files to  
launch GWorkspace yoiu accidentally removed/disabled your window  
manager startup?

> this is the same when I login locally or when I do a
> X -query bsdhost
>
> when I ssh -X into the OpenBSD box, and then start
> openapp GWorkspace
> and then open a terminal window, it has a window title bar (from my  
> kde theme
> which I run locally) and I can enter commands into the xterm window.
> unfortunately the GWorkspace interferes with the locally running  
> KDE, windows
> pop up, sometimes kde grabs shortcuts which are meant for gworkspace.

I guess the kde window manager doesn't work well with gnustep  
apps ... you could try using windowmaker instead.

> another thing I recognized:
> when I started GWorkspace from ssh connection, and open a xterm  
> window and
> issue a defaults read I get the following messge:
>
> $ defaults read
> defaults: can't load library 'libgnustep-base.so.1.12'
> $
>
> the defaults command works well, after I sourced the GNUstep.sh  
> file, but not
> later after starting openapp GWorkspace and opening a terminal window.
>
> is there anything I can do about that?

I don't know bsd, but in gnu/linux you put the gnustep library  
directories in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig so that the system  
knows about them ... otherwise you need to make sure that the  
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is properly set up to list them  
in any shell you start.  Sourcing GNUstep.sh does that for you (in  
the current shell).