Cecilia's not being helpful
| Date | 1999-04-25 19:40 |
| From | Christopher OSBORNE |
| Subject | Cecilia's not being helpful |
|
Hi,
Having read about cecilia in the csound magazine
I thought
I would give it a try. However I cannot get the
help facility
to work at all.
I have Cecilia 2.0.2 on RedHat Linux 5.0 Kernel
2.0.32.
Netscape version 4.07 is installed & I have
set the
preferences to the correct paths.
The help facilities just gave a message box
(conveniently
located off the top of the screen - virtual
desktop to the
rescue!). This box listed what appears to be the
output
of 'ps e'. I thought that the problem might be
the odd way
that ps on linux truncates lines to 80 chars
when not
outputing to a terminal, or the way that fvwm2
starts
some processes with doubled up
slashes.
So I hacked ps to allow long lines of output
& to
compress multiple consecutive '/'s.
Now any attempt to use the cecilia help results
in the
program locking up (all menu items inactive),
but I don't
get the message box. It doesn't matter whether
I
have netscape running at the time or
not.
Has anyone got any clues how to fix
it?
(I can just run netscape on the help files
directly so
this is not too bad a problem)
My apologies if this is on topic, perhaps I
should
post to
alt.wars_gibberish_and_my_os_is_better_than_yours.
Regards,
Chris
Osborne |