Re: Gnome Under Solaris 7

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

> From: "David T. Bath" <bathd edipost auspost com au>
> To: "Paul E. Yahnig" <pyahnig kean edu>

> > Hello all....I have just installed Gnome on my Ultra 5 running Solaris 7.  
> > When I go to login, I select the Gnome desktop, all that happens is, that I 
> > get logged back out.  The same thing happens for root as well.  I kept 
> > Solaris as my desktop manager.
> Similar problem on E450/Solaris7 using Helix Gnome.
> I tried going in under failsafe with a raw xterm and then invoking 
> gnome-session.
> gnome-session segfaults.
> Advice also appreciated.

Well-known issue - see http://www.clanger9.demon.co.uk/computer/gnome/, "Solaris 
7 gotcha", just above the "General setup" heading.

My personal solution is not to use gnome-session, but instead to use 
Enlightenment and use the menu system in that to start the bits I want.  There's 
another bug in the Sun Xserver that causes window frame graphics corruption when 
using the Panel, so this also helps with that.

All of this is getting looked at very seriously by the Sun Engineers now working 
on Gnome for inclusion in the next Solaris major release.

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