RE: Gnome and E

[Paul Huckaby <paul ask com>]

I created .xinitrc in my usr home directory, and put
gnome-session
I then logged in as that user and startx, I got a dialog stating another
WindowManager was runnning and E couldn't start. And something about it
trying to write to the files need to start it. It didn't work either. Any
ideas??

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Lewis [mailto:tlewis@digaudio.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 9:33 AM
To: Paul Huckaby
Cc: 'Marcus Fontenot'; gnomelist
Subject: Re: Gnome and E


I have successfully setup gnome/enlightenment as a normal user.  I just
copied .xinitrc ~/<user_name> (your home directory; if you are not sure,
type 'pwd' after logging in as the desired user).  BTW, the only command
in my .xinitrc is:

gnome-session

This should start E and panel, among other things like GMC, help, etc. 
Let me know if you are successful.

Tim


Paul Huckaby wrote:
> 
> 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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