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Re: Nautilus, Evolution, et. al available...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Sat Sep 16 21:45:21 2000

To: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 16 Sep 2000 18:47:11 -0700
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:45:28 -0400"
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Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> writes:

> You should upgrade to Evolution 0.5.1 (which is on the Helix GNOME
> Evolution mirror now). 0.5 was pretty much a disaster.
> 
> And FYI, kerberized IMAP support will be going into the tree this
> week.
> 
> > You can also ssh in, though this is sometimes less successful.
> 
> Some of the components don't exit when the app exits, so if you run
> evolution or nautilus on :0.0 and then run it remotely, some of the
> components might be trying to talk to the wrong X server. "oaf-slay"
> will kill off any stray components running as you, so if you do that
> first, you might have better luck. (Of course, this will eit anyone
> else already logged in on that machine as gtest running one of those
> programs.)
> 

The X server issue should actually be fixed soon in OAF (it will
actually support multi-display properly). The bug report for this is
here:

http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3033

Feel free to add further comments if MIT folks want to contribute to
testing, and this is a test blocker (please please please file bug
reports of any problems you find).

 - Maciej

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