Afte playing with it for an hour, I found the best thing was to run it from
the "run command" in the Fedora or KDE menu. You're right about the
stalling (not returning to a prompt) until I close the application. I
appreciate all the help. Looking forward to attending my first meeting in
Dunedin this weekend.
On 2/22/06, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Waldo wrote:
> > I downloaded N-Vu (a web page utility) into my Fedora Core 4 server.
> > The file name is "nvu-1.0-1.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm" and I manually installed
> > it with:
> > [root@localhost nvu]# rpm -Uvh nvu-1.0-1.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm
> > Preparing... ###########################################
> > [100%]
> > 1:nvu ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >
> > when I start nvu I get this:
> > [root@localhost nvu]# nvu
> >
> > (nvu-bin:21529): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
> > wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> >
>
> GNOME and KDE spit out errors like this constantly, and I've never
> figured out why. Programs run fine, even as GNOME and KDE complain like
> hell.
>
> > The application starts but the root shell console stalls. Does anyone
> > know how to fix this?
>
> When you say it "stalls", do you mean it doesn't return to a prompt? If
> so, it's acting correctly. You launched a program from the command line
> which hasn't terminated yet. Like any other command launched this way,
> you don't get a prompt back until it terminates. The best way to do this
> is to add nvu to the menus in X. Don't ask me how this is done on
> Fedora, because I have no idea. But that would obviate having to run it
> from a console.
>
> Paul
>
> --
> Paul M. Foster
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