Re: Gnome 2 on RedHat 9 and Solaris

[Chris Majewski <majewski cs ubc ca>]

Chris Majewski <majewski cs ubc ca> writes:

> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > Chances are that ~/.gnome2/session ends up containing some application
> > that doesn't exist on Solaris, or that doesn't work, and so the
> > session manager waits for a several-minute timeout for that thing to
> > start up.
> 
> I've  set things  up so  ~/.gnome2 gets  symlinked  to ~/.gnome2-SunOS
> (same old  hack I had  for ~/.gnome). This  makes things a  bit better
> (session doesn't hang) but I still get an error message on login, that
> some session files are in use. 

There's   a   problem  here   -   under   1.4,   there  was   a   file
~/.gnome/sun_valid_file. On login, I looked for this file to determine
whether I was looking at the  Linux .gnome or the Sun .gnome, and then
rename  the directory appropriately  (forget what  I said  above about
symlinks - symlinks didn't work, so I ended up just renaming stuff). 

Under 2.x, I no longer see this file under .gnome or .gnome2. 

-chris