Non-Motif Linux Interface? - SOLVED!

Bill Marriott wjm at wjm.org
Fri Apr 27 03:30:00 EDT 2007


I'm noticing that Ubuntu is crashing like crazy with Rev set up to use GTK. 
If I drag a tab control out, it's all corrupted. It isn't long till the 
whole thing locks up. Maybe it's best to stick with Motif until 2.9 is out?

"Bill Marriott" <wjm at wjm.org> wrote in message 
news:f0s79r$o30$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Ken,
>
> Thanks for the additional pointers. Here's what I had to do to get things 
> to work:
>
> 1) I updated the revolution.sh script with the path to my Rev installation
> 2) I verified that all the files existed
> 3) When I double-clicked it and selected "run" (Ubuntu asks you if you 
> want to display the file, run in terminal, etc.), nothing happened.
> 4) I opened a terminal window and ran the shell file directly. I saw that 
> I got the error, "bad fd" line 11
> 5) I modified the shell script and got rid of the >& /dev/null part
> 6) I ran it again (from terminal) and Revolution launched. This time with 
> Ubuntu-style controls.
>
> Seems like a lot of work; I guess this is why Linux is still not taking 
> over the desktop, eh? Now, how do I fix this kind of thing for my 
> standalone apps?





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