Re: Help getting gnome up on Caldera...

["Todd Chapman" <toddc ppgweb com>]

Thanks to Paul and Elliot for thier replies.  On a follow-up though, I
currently have my system configured in /etc/inittab to run kdm (KDE's login
manager).  The docs for that said that I needed to enter 'startkde' in my
.xsession file.  When I changed that to 'exec gnome-session', I still ended
up in KDE.  Would you advise that rather than use kdm, I use xdm?  Or is
there another file (global in nature) that I should be adding 'exec
gnome-session' to or referencing the use of my .xsession file with?

Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul G Cooper <pgc@maths.warwick.ac.uk>
To: Todd Chapman <toddc@ppgweb.com>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Help getting gnome up on Caldera...


>
>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Todd Chapman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 1. group utmp does not exist, using root
>> 2. gnome-print cannot be installed.  Execution of script failed.
>
>Don't know why this works but try doing
>rpm -e gnome-print
>rpm -Uvh gnome-print*.rpm
>
>I think some thing that the post install script is looking for isn't there
>until a later rpm is installed. Well this worked for me on RH 6 - I
>haven't had a chance yet to try on Caldera.
>
>> 3. /sbin/pidof No such file or directory
>>
>> When I run 'exec gnome-session' from the command line, I get 2 errors
>> (twice):
>>
>> 1. Gdk - WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
>> 2. Gtk - WARNING **: cannot open display
>
>You need to be running X for gnome-session to work (that's #2, don't know
>if #1 is important or related). You should have gnome-session as the last
>(and probably only) thing in your .xinitrc file. Think of .xinitrc is as a
>list of things that X starts up once it's got started itself.
>gnome-session takes care of starting window manager, file manager, panel,
>etc so you don't really need anything else in the .xinitrc.
>
>Paul
>
>> Then it spits out a line of session manager info and repeats the 2
>> errors above.
>>
>> I've searched through the docs and several months of gnome-list archives
>> to no avail. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
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