Re: gnome and WindowMaker

[Paul Barnfather <plb clanger9 demon co uk>]

Hall wrote:
> 
> Yeah, those instructions look right -- for Gnome v0.30 or so, if I remember
> correctly !! Is this still spelled out somewhere that people haven't fixed?
> Like a web page, an INSTALL file, etc, etc ?? Almost daily, someone posts a
> message with the *wrong* startup script (using Gnome session mgmt)...
> 
> As you already been told, the correct script is basically:
> 
> exec gnome-session
> 
> Using WindowMaker takes a couple more steps, but is no problem ... either
> editing a file (that I don't recall right now) or open the Gnome Control
> Center and selecting WindowMaker from the WindowManager capplet.
> 
> On 18 May 1999 08:03:54 -0400, Brandon <ifup@ragemail.com> wrote:
> 
> >here is the .xinitrc I am using:
> >
> >background-properties --init &
> >keyboard-properties --init &
> >mouse-properties --init &
> >panel &
> >exec wmaker
> 

So how do I start GNOME *without* session management?

It is too flaky for me. Is there anything actually wrong with starting
panel, followed by wmaker?

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