How to run a patch file

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Debian (Testing/unstable)

My GNOME 2.4 can login but its desktop fails to start with
following warning

ERROR>>>
There was an error starting the GNOME_Settings Daemon

Some things such as Themes, sounds or background settings may not work
correctly

The Setting Daemon restarted too many times

The last error message was
Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_Setting Daemon'
GNOME will still try to restart the Setting Daemon
next time your login
<close>
<<<

However I can run GNOME applications from there.


I have been searching hard for a solution and from Internet I found following
patch to libbonobo can help:

diff -u -p -u -r1.41 bonobo-activation-activate.c
--- bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-activate.c 9 Jun 2003
13:17:55 -0000 1.41
+++ bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-activate.c 29 Oct 2003
13:23:01 -0000
@@ -714,6 +714,7 @@ bonobo_activation_init_activation_env (v
{ "SESSION_MANAGER", NULL }, /* XSMP session manager */
{ "AUDIODEV", NULL }, /* Audio device on Sun
systems */
{ "LANG", NULL }, /* Fallback locale name */
+ { "XAUTHORITY", NULL },
{ NULL, NULL }
};

?



but I am inexperienced to run the above patch. Kindly advise me its steps.

Thanks in advance.

B.R.
satimis

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