Re: How to run new Gnome after compiling?

["J. Gardner Biggs" <gardnerbiggs houston rr com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 14:58, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> Nick,
> 
> With RedHat, I believe that you can choose a session type of Xsession (on 
> pre-8.0) from the GDM Session menu.  On 8.0, you can choose a session type 
> of Default.  That will use your .xsession file instead of automatically 
> running gnome-session itself.
> 
> --Jason
> 

FWIW, In my Red Hat 8.0 system, I just created a new session in the
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions directory with what was posted on the GARNOME
website.  I then made sure it was executable, and logged back into that
session.  Works like a champ.



> On 2 Mar 2003, Nick Gianakas wrote:
> 
> > I can't seem to get my system to use the Gnome 2.2 instead of the old
> > version (packed w/ the system).  I'm using RedHat 7.2, and created a
> > file named .xsession in my home dir which runs a script which in turn is
> > supposed to start the new Gnome (from the garnome dir).  I'm using GDM
> > too.  When I log in, the old/original version of Gnome starts up; so I
> > assume the contents of .xsession are being ignored.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?  Below are the contents of my .xsession file:
> > 
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec $HOME/garnome-session
> > 
> > 
> > // $HOME/garnome-session  (this line is NOT in the file)
> > #!/bin/sh
> > GARNOME=$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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I appreciate any and all help.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Nick
> > 
> > 
> 
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