gEDA-user: Top gEDA tips for connected gEDA icons....

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

Since gEDA 1.4.x, we have had pretty icons for gEDA file, and
application icons in the menus, but these have been quite tricky to get
working when you install gEDA under $HOME (since that isn't on your
desktop session's path).

What I just discovered (although I don't know if it works with older
GNOME versions, or other desktops), is that if I place my gEDA path
settings:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pcjc2/geda/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/home/pcjc2/geda/bin:${PATH}
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/pcjc2/geda/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

In ~/.profile

(Then log out and back in again)

The gnome session picks them up the same as any other login shell would.

NB: After much searching, I finally found that ~/.profile is called
from /etc/gdm/Xsession. If ~/.profile doesn't work for you, take a look
at what other scripts get run from /etc/gdm/Xsession (if you use the
gnome display/login manager), or if that's not what's being
run, /etc/X11/Xsession and possibly scripts under /etc/X11/Xsession.d


If you're using the epiphany web-browser, you can mark the gEDA
mime-types as safe to open:

Add the following inside /etc/gnome/epiphany/mime-types-permissions.xml:

Under:

<mime-types-permissions>
<safe>

Add:

<mime-type type="application/x-geda-schematic"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-geda-symbol"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-pcb-layout"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-pcb-footprint"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-pcb-netlist"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-gerber"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-excellon"/>


Well, hope that is useful to people!

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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