RE: Adding session to login

[bill helke cp Novartis com]

Oops!  I was looking at an old xfce RPM file on rufus.w3.org.  I see from
freshmeat today that Xfce has been redesigned (and includes
"GNOME-compliance").  The startxfce command was not in the older rpm file.
You are correct in calling xfwm - this is the window manager executable.
The xfce I suggested is the panel which runs similar to GNOME but under the
xfwm window manager. 

William F. Helke

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:gardnerj@pro-usa.net]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 10:19 AM
To: Helke Bill CP USGR EXC
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Adding session to login


Yes, sorry, I meant to update everyone (and thank them as well). What I did
was
add a line starting the xf window manager. So now my session script has a
line:

exec xfwm
exec startxfce

I don't know if the second line is absolutely necessary, but I do know that
it
works now.
BTW I don't know about what rufus found, but I can find a file called
startxfce
in my /usr/X11R6/bin/ it was how I was starting xfce from the command line
earlier.

Thanks everybody for your help.

Jonathan

bill.helke@cp.Novartis.com wrote:

> Jonathan:
>
> Did you ever get xfce to work from gdm?  Looking at your last post, it
> appears that you are calling "startxfce" from the xdm Xsession script.
When
> I looked at the xfce RPM on rufus, there is no such program included (it
> installs /usr/X11R6/bin/xfce, not /usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce).  You may want
> to try fixing this to point to the correct executable (i.e.: xfce) and
give
> it another shot.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William F. Helke
> bill.helke@cp.novartis.com
>
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