Re: starting garnome

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney technaut darktalker net>]

But, what if you don't use GDM, like me? I start up at the command line 
and then launch X when i need it.

J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> All I did on my redhat system was create a new file with the proper
> permissions in the /ect/X11/gdm/Session that contained:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> GARNOME=$HOME/garnome
>
> PATH=$GARNOME/bin:$PATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GARNOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.2/site-packages
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$GARNOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> GDK_USE_XFT=1
>
> export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
>
> exec $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session
>
>
> and nothing else, i did  not modify the ~/.Xclients file at all.  This
> was on a stock RH8.0 install.
>
> hope this helps.
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 11:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
> > I tried it again. This time I waited 15 minutes, but nothing ever 
> > happened. The mouse pointer never even changed from the big X.
> >
> > Rico Facionado wrote:
> >
> > > --- Andrew Gaffney <agaffney technaut darktalker net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > When I launch X, it shows the nifty foot n' disco ball background, but 
> > > > it hangs there. I switch over to another console and see gnome-session 
> > > > is using 98.5% CPU. What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > >
> > > For my part, I also had garnome initially "hanging" at the stage you mention.
> > > But during compilation I happened to have noticed that in the Menu, 
> > > Applications had gone empty. So I figured that it might just be taking a long
> > > time to generate that. I am not sure though. But the next time I tried again
> > > to log in and patiently waited a fair amount of minutes, I was rewarded and the
> > >
> > > subsequent logins went pretty fast.
> > >
> > > How about you? For how long did you wait before concluding it had hung?
> > >
> > > Rico.
> > >
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Andrew Gaffney