Re: Accessing GNOME

[Jim George <jg014a8950 blueyonder co uk>]

Dear Ben,

	appologies for not getting back sooner but I wanted to answer you from
within Evolution in Gnome accessed via KDM.

	By the fact that I'm answering you can see that I succeeded.  As you
say the solution was to sue 'gnome-session'.  All I had to do was (as
root) change kdms available sessions to replace gnome with gnome-session
and it all worked beautifully.

	I must say that Ximians' help was non-existent on this and the new gdm
was less than helpful with the keyboard problems, which apparently have
been reported elsewhere.  But now I'm here i'm very pleased to get
involved.

Thanks again,

Jim

On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 20:24, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 12:37, Jim George wrote:
> > I'm brand new to Ximian Gnome and amd having problems with the
> > startup/login.
> > 
> > I want to use kdes' login manager (kdm) as my family prefer kde to gnome
> > (for the moment), and I want to be able to choose between kde and
> > gnome.  My problem is that I can't seem to select invoke gnome.
> > 
> > I tried adding sawfish to the session types in kdm but all I get is the
> > xconsole and not windowmanager.
> > 
> > I also tried using gdm but my keyboard locks up after 10 seconds or so
> > and I can do no more.  I see on the console an error message about
> > uknown language types but that's all.
> > 
> > Please can someone tell me how to setup kdm so that I can get into gnome
> > or gdm so that I can get into kde and gdm with the keyboard working.
> 
> I have not worked with KDM. The one bit of advice I have is this: to
> start gnome, the command that needs to be run is gnome-session. If you
> can create a session type for KDM that simply runs gnome-session, that
> should do it.
> 
> --Ben
> 
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