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

[Sam Steele <chip c99 org>]

A better way is to create a file in your home directory called .xinitrc
and put "exec gnome-session" in it, then start x using "startx" instead
of xinit.

-Sam

On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 22:24, Matt Whimp & Sarah Kemp wrote:
> 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
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