From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Aug 31 15:21:40 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Aug 31 15:21:49 2004
Subject: [Rd] Problem with R --gui=GNOME when launched from a menu system
In-Reply-To: <20040831023858.GA9751@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408311413080.25501-100000@gannet.stats>

What are stdin/stdout/stderr connected to when you do that? R --gui=GNOME
does write certain error messages (from GDK/GTK) to the controlling
terminal so you may need one, at least if there is an error/warning.

I see gnome_start in src/modules/gnome/system.c has

    R_Interactive = isatty(0);

I would think that was blind copying.  Please see if setting it to 1 
helps.


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> A Debian user filed a bug report the details of which are at
> 	http://bugs.debian.org/269107
> 
> I can replicate his problem: the R/Gnome entry that is made available to the
> various window managers fails. A window pops, and exists.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the menuing system does not have a problem with shell
> script wrapper. Environment variables like PATH, DISPLAY etc should be set
> too.  So the best idea I am having now is that R _may_ think that
> interactive() is FALSE when it should in fact be TRUE.
> 
> Does anybody have a) other ideas, and fixes, or b) an idea how I could
> correct the menuing system?
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 

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[Rd] Problem with R --gui=GNOME when launched from a menu system
Prof Brian Ripley