Re: GNOME and WindowMaker

[James Thompson <jamest math ksu edu>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Neb Bosworth wrote:

> back in, there is no background even though control-center is still set up
> with the background I chose in the previous section. Also, Screensavers
> don't work at all. AND, AND, when I use panel's logout, it just quits
> panel, not the window manager. Basic ickiness..... nothing that really
> hurts but kind of a pain in the ass.
> 

I had similar problems.  The following e-mail snippet may help.  Once
gnome-session runs OK then you use to control-center to switch your window
manager to Window Maker.



From: James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au>
To: James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Solved.  But why? was Re: RH5.1/gnome-session problem

There is a bug in the latest gnome-core.  It installs default.session in
$(prefix)/share, but gnome-session expects to find it in
$(prefix)/share/gnome.  Copying the file accross to the correct location
will also fix the problem.  The bug should be fixed in the next tarball
release.

James.

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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, James Thompson wrote:

> > 
> > This .xinitrc works
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # WindowMaker Default .xinitrc
> > #enlightenment
> > panel &
> > exec /usr/local/bin/wmaker
> > #gnome-session
> > ##
> > 
> > If I change it to 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # WindowMaker Default .xinitrc
> > #enlightenment
> > #panel &
> > #exec /usr/local/bin/wmaker
> > gnome-session
> > ##
> > 
> > gnome-session runs but doesn't start a window manager
> > 
> 
> By copying /usr/local/share/default.session to ~/.gnome/session
everything
> works fine.
> 


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