Re: RHAD Labs announces GNOME 1.0 RPMS for Red Hat Linux 5.2

["Michael Rogers" <bastard_machine hotmail com>]

>> >What I really want to know is why the gnome-core rpms have a
>> >dependency on the enlightenment Window Manager?  I cannot see any
>> >reason why. Gnome works fine with WindowMaker for me. It probably 
>> >does with other WMs too.
>> >
>> >The reason I ask is that I think dependencies should not be made 
>> >by the packagers preference of software unless there are some 
>> >_real_ reasons. As I installed starbuck yesterday on my home 
>> >computer I was forced to install enlightenment to satisfy the 
>> >dependency of the gnome-core. When I finally got all installed I 
>> >had to do a rpm -e to remove enlightenment.
>> 
>>  I just compiled gnome from source without 
>> freetype/fnlib/enlightenment, but I couldn't get gnome-session to 
>> start with wm2. The panel plus wm2 worked fine, and I changed 
>> "gnome-wm --sessionmanagerstuff" to "wm2" in 
>> /usr/local/share/gnome/default.session and "WM=gnome-wm" to 
>> "WM=wm2" in /usr/local/share/gnome/default.wm, but gnome-session 
>> wouldn't start. (Btw my ~/.gnome/default.wm kept changing itself 
>> back to "WM=xterm" - anyone know why?) 
>
>Did you try leaving /usr/local/share/gnome/default.session as 
>gnome-wm, and export the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable with a 
>value of "wm2"?
>The gnome-wm script checks that first, and if it's not set, it tries 
>a list of likely window managers (wm2 is not on this list).  If it 
>finds nothing, it sets the window manager to be xterm, so you can at 
>least do something.

This is what I should have tried, instead of fooling around with the 
default.session. Thanks!

>I don't know if wm2 supports session management.

I'm working on it - that's why I want to run Gnome with wm2 ;)

>If the above 
>doens't work, you might want to try explicitly the following as a 
>.xinitrc:
>   wm2 &
>   exec gnome-session

Again, this works with e installed, but if you haven't installed e or 
set WINDOW_MANAGER then gnome-session doesn't start.

>But try the WINDOW_MANAGER trick first.

Any chance of adding this to the Gnome website's "installing Gnome 
from tarballs on Red Hat 5.2" page? It still says to edit 
default.session. Other than that I found the page extremely helpful.

Thanks again.


 - Michael Rogers

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