Re: running gnome2

[Nick Murtagh <murtaghn tcd ie>]

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 23:07, Ben Rooney wrote:
> you've got to understand that the state of my machine is in a bit of a
> bastardized state.  it was initially running mandrake 7.2, then i through
> ximian on it while in between and after installing other packages or
> compiling apps myself.  i've always had trouble with nautilus and other
> apps.

i've had no luck with mandrake 8.1 either, and nobody here was able to help.
what happens when you try to run gnome?

> so, basically, does anybody have any ideas?  does anybody know where they
> can point me to to get a background info on what gnome does when it starts
> up.  ie. what processes are started, in what order, etc...  this may help.

basically, you start X, and then run gnome-session. mandrake and 
possibly other distros put a lot of stuff in the way, but that's what
it comes down to. 

nick