Re: gnome not starting wm?

[Rick Hansen <in_rapture yahoo com>]

Hehe. This is the exact problem I was having, and
posted about, a week ago. I had rolled my own system
and when I installed gnome and the windows manager,
sawfish would run the first time I fired up X but
would not any succesive starts. Here is what was
happening. When you configure sawfish it is looking
for a few X headers. Specifically X11/SM/SMlib.h. This
file is located in /usr/X11R6/include on a basic X
install. However sawfish will not find this file with
the configure script for some reason. Check the output
of sawfish's configure for this line.

Checking for X11/SM/SMlib.h .... no

When this happens sawfish will not build with session
managment support (although it will build without any
errors or warnings), which is basically what
gnome-session is. So the window manager will start (
although it seems to hang during initial log in for a
while ) and then is removed from the .gnome/session
file. To fix this simply make a link like so:
 
ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11

Recomile sawfish, and it should work nicely.

Rick Hansen


--- Nathan Giuliani <guidos dingoblue net au> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I have been using GNOME under linux for a while now,
> and throughout my 
> quest to find a linux installation that satisfies me
> i have used many 
> distributions. I have come to the conclusion that an
> LFS system is what 
> i want, and have just built one.
> 
> I have just installed GNOME 1.4 from source, and its
> doing something 1.2 
> did to me a while ago.. not starting the window
> manager. The first start 
> it will start it, and sit there for about a minute
> before removing the 
> splash screen and coming up with the panels. after
> saving the session 
> again it wont even start the window manager but it
> thinks it has 
> according to the control center's applet. In this
> case its sawfish 0.38 
> but it does it with icewm too.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas? I can provide any information
> needed...
> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan Giuliani
> 
> 
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