Re: garnome-list digest, Vol 1 #57 - 9 msgs

[Matt Whimp & Sarah Kemp <matt&sarah email message co nz>]

On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:14:18 -0700
"Michael Dewey" <md_291 onebox com> wrote:

> Hi:  I have Mandrake 8.2 and I have installed garnome 0.10.1 and now
> I want to get it started.  So I login and cd to garnome-0.10.1 dir and
> type gnome-session and I get this error message:  
> 
> Gtk-WARNING - cannot open display
> Session-manager=local/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2088
> Gtk-WARNING - cannot open display

I have been struggling with this problem for a while now, without
finding any satisfactory answers.  How kdmrc and /etc/X11/wmsession.d
interact with each other is still a mistery to me.  Anyway, the work
around as far as I know is to start an xsession by dropping down to
runlevel 3 (ie boot to a terminal, or if you're in X, open up a
terminal, su to root, and type "init 3".  Then once you're logged into a
terminal, type xinit.  This will start an X session.  You will see a
terminal.  In the terminal, you'll have to set your $PATH and
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables as set out in the readme.  Then cd to
~/garnome,
and type gnome-session.


> Now, on my system I boot up into the command line and login and then
> as root start gdm so I can run ximian-gnome for mdk 8.2 or open kde3
> where garnome 0.10.1 is. So how do I add garnome to gdm or get it
> started from command line from the garnome dir?
> 

Dunno.  Never managed it.  I tried for a while, but am using the method
above for the moment.

Matt