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n00body

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Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 29

Evince troubles

Evince was not appearing in my menus for the longest time, so I tired it from the command line and got this:

(evince:2692): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

** (evince:2692): WARNING **: Service registration failed.

** (evince:2692): WARNING **: No reply within specified time

Can anyone tell me the meaning and remedy to said problem?

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Arch = Debian + Gentoo + Bleeding edge software - annoyances.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Evince troubles

Evince was not appearing in my menus for the longest time, so I tired it from the command line and got this:

(evince:2692): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

** (evince:2692): WARNING **: Service registration failed.

** (evince:2692): WARNING **: No reply within specified time

Can anyone tell me the meaning and remedy to said problem?

Run evince as the same user as you have your X running. Usually running as root gives the top message.
About the service registration and reply things: these are because you don't have a dbus session bus running for the user you're trying to start evince with.

n00body

Member

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 29

Re: Evince troubles

Well now my only question is, why didn't it get added to the menu when I installed it? Because the same thing has been happening with other programs, whether their icon is absent, or they don't show up at all.

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Arch = Debian + Gentoo + Bleeding edge software - annoyances.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Evince troubles

evince is an application that doesn't show up in the menus because of a reason. What would you use evince for on a desktop? To view files. So now you have a PDF file, you see you want to open it, go to the gnome menu, open evince, select file -> open, search for your PDF file and then open it... too much work, just double-click it.
If Evince was a PDF writer it would show up in the menu, but as long as it's just a viewer, it's useless to have it in the menu.

This is the reason behind a NoDisplay=true entry in the .desktop file for evince.