xfskin and freebsd

[James Tappin]

On Monday 04 March 2002 12:03, you wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:55:09 +0100
> "Giancarlo Rosso" <giancarlo_rosso at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm. i tried to make the restart function platform independant, didn't work
> i guess. All xfskin tries to do is restart your XFCE, to re-read your
> config files For now, you can comment out the restartXFCE function (line
> 440 in xfskin), and restart XFCE manual. (to comment out, place a # as
> first char in the line)
> Meanwhile i'll try to find a way to make the restarts function platform
> dependant.
>
> > I just downloaded xfskin from yahoo, and i cannot make it work.
> > When i try to install a theme i get this error:
> >
> > kill: illegal process id: gianca
> > kill: illegal process id: gianca
> >     while executing
> > "exec kill -USR1 $pid"
> >     (procedure "restartXFCE" line 6)
> >     invoked from within
> > "restartXFCE"
> >     (procedure "put_config" line 17)
> >     invoked from within
> > "put_config"
> >     invoked from within
> > ".buttons.install invoke"
> >     ("uplevel" body line 1)
> >     invoked from within
> > "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
> >     (procedure "tkButtonUp" line 7)
> >     invoked from within
> > "tkButtonUp .buttons.install
> > "
> >     (command bound to event)
> >
> > I changed ps option from "-u" to "-U", but i got more error.
> > What is it?
> > Thanx
> > PS i have FreeBSD 4.5, and tk8.3

It should be "ps U" not "ps -U" for BSD type systems and "ps -u" for SysV 
systems (Linux supports both, Solaris only SYSV) so you probably need some 
sort of check for which type of system you have.

James


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