Re: Gnome and WM

[kluster <canona usa net>]

OK... I have this in my /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost	localhost.localdomain
and this if I type hostname at an xterm
1Cust89.tnt1.rockford.il.da.uu.net
How do I add it?  Thanks,.,



Christopher Seawood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, kluster wrote:
> 
> > How can I use windowmaker and gnome?  I have tried adding this to my
> > .xinitrc (which consisted only of exec wmaker):
> >
> > background-properties --init &
> > keyboard-properties --init &
> > mouse-properties --init &
> > panel &
> > exec wmaker
> >
> > But I don't get the gnome taskbar and get an error:
> >
> > **Could not communicate with panel
> >
> 
> A friend ran into a similar problem earlier this week.  He claims that
> adding the name of the local machine to your /etc/hosts file fixes the
> problem. Apparently, mico checks to see if your hostname, as returned by
> `hostname`, is in /etc/hosts and croaks if it's not.
> 
> - cls