Re: Installing gnome-shelll permenantly

[Sam Illingworth <hushnecampus gmail com>]

> hi I tried to install gnome_shell permanently on an account and it
> didn't work
> I did
> gconftool-2 --set
> /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string
> gnome-shell
> and I tried
>
> gconftool-2 --set
> /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string
> /usr/bin/gnome-shell
>
>
> no joy is there some way to set it up as a gdm session so it will  
> appear
> in the list of options on gdm???

That's how I did it and it worked for me. Is gnome-shell definitely in  
your path?  If you installed it from source rather than from a repo  
then it probably isn't and you need to add it.

Sam