Re: no gnome

[James Green <gnome cyberstorm demon co uk>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9903241707010.14070-100000@zoll.albany.eypae.c
om>, Gleef <dzol@virtual-yellow.com> writes

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>Window manager selection seems to be a little iffy in gnome-core 1.0.3.
>Try a gnome-core snapshot, the code has been updated since then.

OK. Down pulling it down.

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>Right, if you set WINDOW_MANAGER to what you want, gnome-session will run
>that window manager.  This won't work in gnome-core 1.0.3, however (hence
>my "since the last release" comment).

So if that WINDOW_MANAGER=Enlightenment ?
In ~/.bash_profile ?
Where's the global default bash profile ?

>Also, the other poster's point is valid.  You are far safest having the
>only line in your .xinitrc, .Xclient or .xsession (whichever you use) be
>"exec gnome-session".  Assuming everything is configured happily,
>gnome-session will run everything else for you.

OK. Will try that.

-- 
James Green