Re: Gnome & RH5.2

[Greg Fall <gmf dweezil dynip com>]

On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Raśl Montoro wrote:

> I've just installed RedHat 5.2 and Gnome. I'm having trouble 
> configuring the .xinitrc file to launch gnome when I start X. I can 
> make gnome run by typing "panel &" under X. But there's no file in 
> my system like .xinitrc, .xsession or Xclients to edit and add the 
> lines to make gnome run. I've tried to create a new .xinitrc with 
> these lines, but it doesn't work.

I suggest you create .Xclients.  I think you want to make it a shell
script by inserting

#!/bin/bash

on the first line.  Once you've built that file (which for its last move
should execute a window manager, e.g. "exec wmaker"), do this:

% chmod 755 .Xclients        <-- makes it executable
% ln -s .Xclients .xsession  <-- makes it work under xdm
% ln -s .Xclients .xinitrc   <-- makes it work with "startx"

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