[KLUG Members] gnucash and Ximian

[Jim Pharis]

Well, on the GNOME desktop you could create an icon and tell it to preform
an action such as xterm --color=blue &

In Ximian I can only seem to create a link to a folder. There doesn't
seem to be any option in show properties. Right clicking only allows you to
create a new window/terminal/folder.



On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> >For a while I thought KDE 2 had GNOME beat. Ximian is beautiful.
>
> Yes it is,  the ULTIMATE desktop.  And once Bonobo is really complete it will be
> the ULTIMA II desktop!  :)
>
> >One problem though, I get this error message when I try to start gnucash
> > bash-2.04$ ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> > ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.4/slibcat"
> > gnucash: [W] "failure loading
> > ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/c-interface.scm"
> > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> > ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.4/slibcat"
> > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/prefs.scm"
> > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> > ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.4/slibcat"
> > gnucash: [W] "failure loading
> > ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/srfi/srfi-8.guile.scm"
> > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
>
> Do these files exists?
> What version of gnucash?
> What version of guile?
> What version of slib?
>

I just DL'd this stuff from a Ximian mirror last night. So im sure they
are all the laterst stables.


> >Seems to me it is trying to use these files with w premissions. That
> >doesn't seem right for something that is located in /usr/share
>
> strace it and find out for sure.
>
> >One other thing. How do I make an icon preform an action not create a
> >folder. With GNOME you could just put the arg in. Ximian doesn't seem
> >to be the same.
>
> Not sure i follow you....
>
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Sincerely, Jim Pharis



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