[474] in Athena User Interface
Re: gtest account woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Tue Oct 24 21:02:31 2000
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:02:05 -0400
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>, aui@mit.edu, kcahill@mit.edu
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Hate to say this, but since what we were going to test was navigation in
this new milieu, without a manager that works, we aren't ready to do
usability testing. We already know the answer.
Susan
At 6:41 PM -0400 10/24/00, Christopher D. Beland wrote:
>Ok, it turns out the whole problem is just due to gmc.
>
>I fixed the startup sequence of gtest. Everything should work
>normally (for whatever definition of normal we happen to have today)
>except gmc. If you start gmc, your session will crash in about 20
>seconds.
>
>For some reason, gmc is being very picky about the environment it's
>started in; I haven't been able to isolate the circumstances it will
>and will not tolerate. If anyone can offer any leads, I'd be
>appreciative.
>
>I'm speculating it depends on the invocation and how and when panel
>and sawfish were started, but I haven't proven that for certain. gmc
>never stopped working for me, and somehow it's now working on the gu
>account, but copying the presumed-relevant dotfiles to gtest didn't
>help.
>
>Ah, well, time to run home for B5 and some sleep.
>
>-B.
>
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>Christopher Beland - http://web.mit.edu/beland/www/contact.html
>MIT STS/Course 6 (EECS) - MIT Athena User Interface Project
> http://www.votenader.org
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