Re: [gnome-love] where do I start asking for help?

[James Goldwater <james eccehomo co uk>]

Thanks, that worked a treat.  Looks like everything obvious works fine 
now.  That's the thing with jumping in at the deep end - you _have_ to 
learn to swim...!


Calum Benson wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:43, James Goldwater wrote:
>
>
> > I've just installed (with a bit of pain!) gnome 2.6 on by debian sarge 
> > box, using jhbuild and patience (PII )-: ), and it works, apart from I 
> > have various .desktop files (starthere.desktop, dragging epiphany to the 
> > desktop creates epiphany.desktop etc) which have a mime-type of 
> > text/plain.  Also, help opens up as xml in a browser.
>
>
> Sounds like you don't have $XDG_DATA_DIRS set to an appropriate value
> (usually <wherever-you-installed-gnome>/share) before gnome-session
> kicks off.  Exactly where you set it might depend on how you start
> GNOME; I have it in my gnome2 gdm session file.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.


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