[Live-demo] Re: Missing "Geospatial" pull down menu

[Alex Mandel]

If you're remote logging into a Virtual Machine, yes just make sure the 
desktop session is logged out. Then things should behave as expected.

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/10/2012 03:09 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Since builds are done over ssh and a command line, I could try to bring
> down XFCE while building the DVD...
>
> On 02/10/2012 10:20 PM, Hamish wrote:
>> Cameron wrote:
>>> Hamish,
>>> Are you aware that in osgeolive5.5b3, we don't have a
>>> "Geospatial" tab in the top tool bar, which opens up the
>>> pull down list of applications, as per:
>>> http://live.osgeo.org/_images/osgeolive_menu.png
>> yes, see ticket #855
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/855
>>
>>
>>> Do you know how to fix this?
>> Alex might. Before digging into any changes, a possible work-around is to
>> not auto-login as 'user' upon first raw xubuntu boot, then ctrl-alt-f1
>> to a tty login, start gnu `screen`, and run the dvd build from there.
>> then only log in as 'user' once all the updated xfce scripts are in
>> place.
>>
>> hopefully we can make the already-installed menu change, but it might
>> be that changes are overwritten when 'user' logs out from xfce if it
>> is logged in to a session during build.
>>
>> an alternative to ctrl-alt-f1 is to change the session login type to
>> fwm or fluxbox or something minimal to do the build, instead of trying to
>> have xfce do brain surgery on itself while it's still awake.
>>
>>
>> Hamish
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