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Goofy kppp and Enlightenment problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick O'Neil)
Mon Oct 26 22:43:55 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:39:45 +0000
From: "Patrick O'Neil" <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
To: KDE general mailing list <kde@lists.netcentral.net>,
redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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I have several wm installed to play with. Among them are KDE
and Enlightenment. In enlightenment, I have come across an
irritating problem. I have setup (by editing user_main.cfg)
the web button on the top right of the enlightenment screen
to start kppp. It will start it just fine and when I select
"Connect" it will dial and negotiate just fine. What wont
happen is a successful completion to the connection...pppd
seems to lock up. I am then unable to cancel the connection,
nor can I kill kppp by clicking on the X at the top right
corner of the kppp window. If I have the log window open,
I cannot dismiss it nor kill it with the top right X either.
The ONLY way I have found to kill the program and regain the
modem is by killing the kppp process.
If I start kppp via a terminal window, however, none of this
occurs and I am able to connect just fine (I am writing and
sending this message that way).
Why would simply starting kppp via a button on enlightenment
make it unusable but starting it via an xterm make it work
fine?
Of course, one would have to have some experience with
enlightenment (probably) to help me out here but what
follows is the pertinent entry in my user_main.cfg file
that sets up the three mouse buttons to start the appropriate
app:
actionclass {
classname ACTION_EXEC_WEB
type normal
event mouseup
anymod yes
# anybut yes
button 1
action ACTION_EXEC /opt/kde/bin/kppp
next
button 2
action ACTION_EXEC /usr/lib/netscape/netscape
next
button 3
action ACTION_EXEC kfm
}
Again, the question would be why does starting kppp this way (by means
of the first mouse button clicking on the enlightenment web button)
cause
a lockup of the app and an apparent inability to successfully run
pppd...
but starting kppp via xterm is OK?
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