On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:24, Michael Holt wrote: ... > It's not so much that I can't start the program; the start program > is 'gpilotd-control-applet'. The thing is, I just want to put my
no it isn't, that's the control panel applet, which happens to start gpilotd for you if it isn't already running. Just run gpilotd from a startup script. > visor in it's cradle and hit the sync button - I've been using > jpilot, but you have to hit the button on the cradle then click > the sync button on jpilot and sometimes that doesn't work and if > you don't hurry, it times out and you have to start over on the > series of clicks and button pushes. Gnome-pilot is supposed to > have the gpilotd (daemon) which runs in the background. Now once > you've started it via the applet / dialog (which also brings up a > dialog box asking you to confirm the device and settings), you can > hit the cradle button to sync and it works great. The problem is you're lucky that it works at all, gnome-pilot is one finicky pile of junk -- er, fine piece of software. :-) > that I don't leave this machine on, so I don't want to have to > manually start that applet each time and even if it does start > automatically, I still need to hit the 'ok' button each time. I > just want it to start silently in the background. I can't seem to > find any documentation that covers what I want it to do. What I gave you is what you need. Did you try it and have it not work? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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