Re: How to do a test environment...

[Michael George <george mutualdata com>]

The FAQ kind of addresses this and I'm trying the suggestions there.  I'm
still looking for Xnest, though...

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:07:18AM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> I'm not much of a GUI guru.  As a matter of fact, I have just been moving my
> config files around since the mid-to-late 80's and tweaking them as necessary.
> I use CTWM, XTerms, and lately I'm getting to use more and more graphics tools
> as linux gets bigger and more powerful.  I manyally start X11 by running
> "xinit" on the command line and putting things I want run in .xinitrc.  I know
> the "normal" way of running X11 nowadays is w/ startx, but I've never looked
> into how much of a change that would be...
> 
> Generally, I can run KDE and GNOME software with CTWM as my wm just fine.  I
> have RHL 7.2 installed and I can run the gnumeric and abiword (the apps I'm most
> concerned with right now) apps just fine under CTWM.  But I want to try the
> new releases because I have Applix data I want imported and the newer versions
> have that capability.  It's in progress, though, so I want to help with it if
> I can.
> 
> Okay, the quick bio is done, now for my question...
> 
> I have used garnome to build a testbed for the newest gnome.  However, when I
> go to $HOME/garnome/bin and try to run the apps there, I get all sorts of
> errors.  I'm presuming that is because I'm not running the new GNOME on my
> desktop.
> 
> What I'd like to do is to be able to have a parallel set of .xinitrc (or
> whatever) files so that I can fire up an independant X11 session on another VC
> that is running GNOME.  I know I can start up other X11 sessions now by
> spec-ing display :1, but I'm so far behind on how GNOME is "normally" fired up
> I have a way to go to figure out how to get that to happen.
> 
> I'm hoping that someone will have already done this and that there might be a
> quick and easy HOWTO-like document somewhere that would indicate how it's
> done.

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