Re: Using garnome as non-root

[Aschwin van der Woude <aschwin van der woude creanor com>]

I have garnome installed under /opt/garnome, and can use Gnome2 with any
user.
My gdm lists a gnome2-session which works perfectly.
Actually I use gdm2 with the new graphical greeter and a nice customized
screen. :-)

-A.

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:53, Damien Covey wrote:
>   I'm having terrible trouble using garnome as a non-root user.
> 
> I'm using Redhat 7.3 and garnome is installed to default /root/garnome/. 
>  In /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ I've created a new file "Garnome" that I use 
> to start garnome us as root.  In there I have :
> 
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > PATH=/root/garnome/bin:$PATH
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT=1
> >
> > export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
> > export PATH
> >
> > exec /root/garnome/bin/gnome-session
> 
> 
> I've even tried:
> 
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > PATH=$HOME/garnome/bin:$PATH
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT=1
> >
> > export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
> > export PATH
> >
> > exec $HOME/garnome/bin/gnome-session
> 
> In GDM, I choose session -> Garnome, and for both of these 
> configurations it for root, but not for any other user.  If I try to log 
> on as another user to Garnome the screen flashes a couple of times and 
> then drops me back to the login screen (gdm?).
> 
> Has anyone got this to work with RedHat 7.3, or does someone have some 
> ideas on how to get it working.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Damien
> 
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