Re: no gnome

[Jay Love <jslove mindspring com>]

James Green wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
> I've installed Gnome from tarballs, altered /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients to
> read gnome-session, but Windowmaker still pops up. I also changes
> ~/.xinitrc to read:
> 
> gnome-session&
> exec /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment
> 
> which brings Enlightenment up, but nothing even remotely Gnome-ish makes
> an appearance.

In your ~/.xinitrc, the only line should be
exec gnome-session

Gnome handles starting your window manager.  It'll start enlightenment
the first time, then you can change the window manager in the gnome
control-center.

Jay Love

> 
> Without the ~/.xinitrc file itself (to use system-default), I come up
> with a blank screen with a crosshair and nothing else; I hit CTRL-Alt-
> Backspace and an error says GDK-ERROR**: an x io error occurred,
> aborting.
> 
> I have /usr/local/:/usr/local/bin etc in my path. Also, I deleted
> ~/.gnome, performed startx again, quite E, and .gnome *had* been re-
> created.
> 
> So what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Using RedHat 5.2 all updates, using tarballs to default directory
> (/usr/local).
> 
> --
> James Green
> 
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