From edd at debian.org  Tue Aug 31 15:55:10 2004
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Tue Aug 31 15:55:20 2004
Subject: [Rd] Problem with R --gui=GNOME when launched from a menu system
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Brian,

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.

Excellent suggestion, I'll try that this eve.

Thanks as always,  Dirk

> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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> 

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[Rd] Problem with R --gui=GNOME when launched from a menu system
Dirk Eddelbuettel