[gentoo-dev] Desktop GNOME

[gentoo-dev] Desktop GNOME

[Geoff Hutchinson]

Hi,

I was wondering about how to configure GNOME 2 as my desktop.

I used your excellent doco to get KDE up and running, but I want to have a look at GNOME 2, I have installed it but can not get it to run.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Geoff.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Desktop GNOME

[Tobias Eichert]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:52:50 +1000
"Geoff Hutchinson" <geoff@gmhutchinson.com> wrote:

> I used your excellent doco to get KDE up and running, but I want to have a look at GNOME 2, I have installed it but can not get it to run.

There's a Session file called "Gnome" located in /etc/X11/Sessions/ . So when
using a display manager like kdm or gdm, just select "Gnome". It should
work well. For Gnome I usually take gdm but I think kdm should also be
setup quite easy. You might as well run Gnome with "startx" but this
assumes that you have setup your .xinitrc correct.

Cheers,
tobias 

Re: [gentoo-dev] Desktop GNOME

[Ray Leyva]

You might try the following:

echo exec gnome-session > ~/.xinitrc
startx

please note, that this WILL erase anything that you have in your xinitrc file.

Ray

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:52:50 +1000
"Geoff Hutchinson" <geoff@gmhutchinson.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering about how to configure GNOME 2 as my desktop.
> 
> I used your excellent doco to get KDE up and running, but I want to have a look at GNOME 2, I have installed it but can not get it to run.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> 
> Geoff.
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