Re: Customizing Gnome on Macosx

[Iain Kerr <ikerr cmp ucsf edu>]

I went back and checked I have all the Gnome components installed..looks 
like I do..

My feeling is that there's something I need to change in Gconf-editor to 
make the gnome-menu items appear and see programs in the applications 
menu, but I can't find it..

Any ideas ?

Thanks,
Iain

Iain Kerr wrote:
> I recently installed Gnome 2.14.0 via fink under Mac OSX (Tiger). I've 
> used gnome for many years under various Linux distros. My .xinitrc 
> looks like this:
>
> # $Id: xinitrc,v 1.3 2004/06/11 04:37:23 jharper Exp $
> userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
> usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
> sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
> sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
>
> # merge in defaults and keymaps
>
> if [ -f "$sysresources" ]; then
>    xrdb -merge "$sysresources"
> fi
>
> if [ -f "$sysmodmap" ]; then
>    xmodmap "$sysmodmap"
> fi
>
> if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
>    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
> fi
>
> if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
>    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
> fi
>
> # start the window manager
> quartz-wm --only-proxy &
> metacity &
>
> #start GNOME
> source /sw/bin/init.sh
> exec /sw/bin/gnome-session
>
>
> I'm not sure how to integrate applications into the gnome desktop 
> environment eg. I have gedit and gnome terminal in /sw/bin (fink put 
> them there), they open fine from a Mac terminal but how do I integrate 
> them into "Applications" in the top menu bar.....also I notice when I 
> double-click on eg. a word document on gnome I get the message:
>
> "couldn't display /Users/Iain/blah.doc"....is it possible to integrate 
> eg. pre-installed MS Office, Thunderbird, Firefox into Gnome ?
>
> Help on this and any other suggestions in making Gnome more integrated 
> under MacOSX would be greatly appreciated !
>
> Thanks in advance !
> Iain