RE: Gnome and E

[Paul Huckaby <paul ask com>]

Thanks, I tried this and I'm still getting the same problem. Is that all
that needs to go in the .xinitrc file? I know it works because I have no
problems as root, so there is something that I'm missing somewhere. If I
copy the .xinitrc from root to my new user home directory, whould that work.
Would there be any potential problems from using the roots .xinitrc file?
Where is it located?

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Fontenot [mailto:dpcajun@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 7:13 AM
To: Paul Huckaby
Cc: gnomelist
Subject: Re: Gnome and E


Paul,
I had this same problem and I got this answer and it worked for me:

Create a new file in your home directory called .xinitrc by doing 

            cat > .xinitrc 
            PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin 
            exec gnome-session
            enlightment

    And press Ctrl-C to end cat. Do 
            cat .initrc 

    to check if you have the above in your .xinitrc file, and then
start X with 
    startx. 

The instructions were given to me from Juha Saarinen
(juha_saarinen@email.msn.com) and I was having the same problems
because I was not running enlightment, I was running the default
window manager in Red Hat (fwvm95). After I did the above, everything
works great.



---Paul Huckaby <paul@ask.com> wrote:
>
> I created a new user, I've been told using root as my normal login
is bad.
> Now when I loggin as that new user E (Enlightenment) starts but
there is now
> background or Gnome menus ( actually I'm not sure if they are
controlled by
> Gnome or E) are not there and I can't shut down the darn thing. I
remember
> something about moving .xinitrc, but I'm not sure where that is and
where
> I'm supposed to move it, is there anything else that I need to do
for the
> new user to be able to enjoy all the great thing about Gnome. OH
also, will
> I have to do this all again when I upgrad to 1.0 (as soon as I get
the guts
> to try this.)
> I'm currently running Redhat 5.2 ( the free one they were handing
out at
> LinuxWorld ). Thanks for any help
> 
> -Paul
> 
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