problems with running Gnome applications

[Alessandro Lendaro]

hi everybody.
I'd like to have a clue on how can get Gnome and Gtk applications work 
on cygwin.

It would be cool to have a clean and as complete as possible tutorial/wiki
with infos about installing Gnome and applicationso n cygwin and make 
them work.

I got many problems with gconfd (errors like this:
"No database available to save your configuration: Unable to store a 
value at key '/apps/evince/sidebar_size', as the configuration server 
has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 
1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any 
databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd 
processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking 
doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine 
crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks 
should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the 
time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of 
gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove 
~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf 
from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration 
that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in 
/etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems 
gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and 
it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual 
storage locations such as ~/.gconf"

i cant execute bluefish
( "Bad system call" message)

etcetera.

I have Win 2003 server and latest Cygwin/Cygwin ports installation.

Thanks, Alessandro


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