Re: How to run new Gnome after compiling?

["Jason A. Pfeil" <jason jasonpfeil com>]

Nick,

With RedHat, I believe that you can choose a session type of Xsession (on 
pre-8.0) from the GDM Session menu.  On 8.0, you can choose a session type 
of Default.  That will use your .xsession file instead of automatically 
running gnome-session itself.

--Jason

On 2 Mar 2003, Nick Gianakas wrote:

> I can't seem to get my system to use the Gnome 2.2 instead of the old
> version (packed w/ the system).  I'm using RedHat 7.2, and created a
> file named .xsession in my home dir which runs a script which in turn is
> supposed to start the new Gnome (from the garnome dir).  I'm using GDM
> too.  When I log in, the old/original version of Gnome starts up; so I
> assume the contents of .xsession are being ignored.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Below are the contents of my .xsession file:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec $HOME/garnome-session
> 
> 
> // $HOME/garnome-session  (this line is NOT in the file)
> #!/bin/sh
> GARNOME=$HOME/garnome
> 
> PATH=$GARNOME/bin:$PATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GARNOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.2/site-packages
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$GARNOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> GDK_USE_XFT=1
> 
> export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
> 
> exec $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session
> 
> 
> 
> I appreciate any and all help.
> 
> Regards,
> Nick
> 
> 

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