Re: when starting GNOME, message..

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:

> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > 
> > You both want to run gnome-session (and nothing else btw -- it takes care
> > of window managers, name-services and the like). It's the "official" way
> > to run gnome (and gives you session management, too).
> 
> Okay, I took your advice. I had to play around with it a little
> to get it to sort of work. I ended up deleteing all my
> .gnome-related directories to get a clean session/windowmanager
> pref.
> 
> My .xsession file has only the line exec gnome-session in it. I
> started up X but enlightenment kept coming up. I figured out that
> I had to add my own windowmaker to the window manager preferences
> because the default wasn't working. WindowMaker came up and I had

Did you start WindowMaker manually or with the control-center-capplet?

> a panel!!! So I decided to log out, so I did so from the panel.
> upon restarting X, I have the panel, but no window manager. Well
> I have something, but there are no titlebars, handles, borders
> around my windows.

Then you have no wm.

> 
> So I check my .xsession-errors file and this is at the end:
> 
> ** WARNING **: Could not get name service!

Hmm -- gnome-name-service still isn't running... strange.
Maybe you could create a test user to experiment with and run a "pristine"
gnome-session (which fires up enlightenment, which you should change to
WindowMaker then).

> 
> ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 606 (real_goad_server_activate):
> assertion failed
>: (name_service != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL)
> aborting...
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
>         changing state
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
>         changing state
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
>         changing state
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
> in capplet_widget_state_changed
> 
> There is some other stuff that has to do with sound and not being
> able to access /dev/dsp, but that's okay (is it?), cuz I don;t
> have a sound card installed yet. I thought I'd remove the esound
> package, but it's needed by some gnome library.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here? CAn someone point me to some
> docs on how to fix this?

Someone has a HOWTO wrt Gnome and Windowmaker, but I don't recall the URL.
Bye,
Nils
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