Re: Gnome 2.0 on RH 7.3 via garnome

[Travis Saling <trav u washington edu>]

> Has anyone gotten Gnome 2.0 to work on a RH7.3 system via garnome?
> 
> I installed Gnome 2.0 via Garnome into /usr/local/garnome on a RH 7.3
> system (took almost 2 hours to compile and install on my PIII 1GHz,BTW).
> 
> Now however, I cannot figure out how to startx using Gnome 2.0 instead
> of the already installed Gnome 1.4.

Since I use gdm, I created a "Gnome2-GARNOME" file in
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions that looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/usr/local/gnome2-garnome/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gnome2-garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
export GDK_USE_XFT=1
exec ssh-agent /usr/local/gnome2-garnome/bin/gnome-session

Now having said that, I've not had much luck with Gnome 2.0/Garnome 0.12
in actual use. It builds just fine, and it runs - but applications crash
a LOT, and way too many core items (such as large chunks of the control
center) apparently just aren't functional yet. Combine this with the
fact that a number of things I depend on aren't ported yet, and this
pretty much kills my using Gnome 2.

And for the inevitable "have you filed bug reports" rejoinder - every
bug I've run into is already in bugzilla, so no I haven't seen the need
for filing duplicates.

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