Re: GNUstep apps can't initialise backend

[Stephen Cornell]

> The default backend for gui-0.7.5 is xgps, if you want to use xdps, you
> have to do this:
>
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend libgnustep-xdps
>
> I wouldn't recommend using xdps though. It hardly works at all (plus you
> need to install DGS or the dps extension as well).

Thanks, that was indeed the problem.  I compiled xgps and it now works.  For 
posterity's sake, it may be worth pointing out that, in contradiction to the 
GNUstep HOWTO, gcc 2.96 from Red Hat 7.2 can compile GNUstep, and that 
moreover egcs can't compile GWorkspace.

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