RE: So close, yet so far...

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

If you look at the GNOME home page, I found a .XClients file under the
Redhat directions.  I believe that it went:
#!/bin/sh
   exec gnome-session
##
	Greg

Gregory Leblanc
Concordia University
Network Support Specialist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Dunn [mailto:fdunn@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 5:41 PM
> To: Gnome list
> Subject: So close, yet so far...
> 
> 
> OK, I've "mastered" getting Gnome installed.  Now the hard 
> part, editing the
> X startup files.  I made what I thought were appropriate edits to
> $HOME/.Xclients to no avail.  I added a call to 
> /usr/bin/enlightenment and
> exec gnome-session.  Gnome seems to start up but I don't get 
> the panel at
> the bottom of the screen.
> 
> Enlightenment starts up (the progress bar on the screen 
> completes) and then
> a message comes up telling me "another window manager is 
> already running".
> I can't seem to get rid of it.  Although Gnome basically 
> seems to be there
> there's no nice panel at the bottom.
> 
> Please help a Linux newbie!  Someone else on the list asked 
> how to edit the
> startup files and got the answer "use vi".  While technically 
> this may be
> correct there's many of us who don't yet grok the zen of X 
> Windows startup
> files.  A nice step-by-step guide would be extraordinarily 
> useful!  What
> should the ~/.Xclients and xinitrc files look like?  Redhad 
> 5.2 builds these
> quite complex ones.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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