RE: gnome problems

[jason whizzird net]

On 23-Mar-99 Amit Bapat typed:
> I have lots of problems with gnome.
> I hope this is the right place to discuss them. I
> could not get much
> help
> searching dejanews archives.
> BTW, are there any gnome related discussion groups?
> 
> I am new to Linux (not new to UNIX though).
> 
> Here it goes:
> First about my machine.
> 
> Celeron 300, 64MB RAM, ATI Xpert 98 AGP (yes, I use
> XF86_Mach64).
> With RedHat 5.2. and Gnome 1.0
> 
> 1. Gnome starts with the default window manager as
> E. How do I change it?
>    NO. I could not do it thru' Control-Center. When I
> click on Window Manager I don't see anything at all.

have you installed your other WM? it has to be on the system, (you can install
window maker right off the CD. 
in dir: your-cd-drive/RedHat/RPMS,
rpm -Uhv W* wm*
).
once window maker is on just go under control-center and it should be there.

> 2. When I click middle mouse button in root window I
> get E menus. Once I clicked on
>    logout menu option on that menu. What it only did
> was to shut down E. But not the gnome session. So I
> logged out by selecting Logout from the Panel
> system menu.
>    Now when I next time start a gnome-session, E
> won't start. What'swrong?

i just tried to simulate that but E didn't quit on me. try this tho. next time
you run gnome, pull up a term window and run /usr/bin/enlightenment
that should restart E and gnome should autorun E in the future.

> 
> 3. Once the whole display froze. So I hit
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X.
> But when
>    I start a new gnome session, my panel is bare. I
> mean all the
> launchers, pager,
>    clock and other applets that I had put on the
> panel are gone! Where
> did my
>    settings go?

it saves your session on logout, so since you killed the session, it didn't
save. you can always just set up your panel, logout, and restart. then every
thing will be saved.

> 4. gdm won't let me login ever. I double chekcked. I
> always type my
> password
>    correctly. No luck. I have a user/group gdm. But
> it won't work.
> 
never used it. sorry.
> 
> --
> Amit Bapat
> 
> Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand
> its simplicity.
> -Dennis Ritchie
> 
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jason majors
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