Re: First impressions of new GNOME user, and a few problems

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:01:30 Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> Running gnome-session for the first time, Enlightenment said that it
> would modify the files to change my default window manager, but it
> didn't work.  I had to do that manually.  On my system the file that
> Enlightenment needed to modify (but didn't) was
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.  In any case, the modifications that it made
> to the startup files in my home directory were wrong: it added
> Enlightenment, but not gnome-session.

Enlightenment != Gnome

Because E does not require Gnome, it only adds itself to your startup.  If
there is a problem with the way it adds itself, you should probably send
a bug report to the maintainer of E, but E should not be expected to add
the startup commands for Gnome to your .xinitrc

> A couple of problems which I *haven't* been able to solve: my desktop
> icons don't appear.  

There are some problems with gmc not being started automagically by gnome-session.
Try clicking on "FootMenu:File Manager" to start it.

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