* James PEARSON (jpearson3@wanadoo.fr) [030904 14:36]:
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Er... there is no need to download anything to use gnome, nor reboot. It is all included on the suse CDs, although a different version. Just choose gnome in the login menu... Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Thank you for your reply. Your answer is correct as I have installed other user interfaces using the SuSE CD's in just the same way.
I will therefore restate my question:
I want to check out James's version of Gnome (from usr-local-bin) because I am sure that it is pretty cool.
I know nothing about GNOME (except that I installed RH once for a couple of days.)
I believe that APT has installed all the neccessary rpms on my machine. I currently can't select GNOME from the login widow.
How do go about adding James' version of Gnome to the login window?
The ULB packages are drop in updates for the Gnome2 that comes on the CD's. They are much more up to date and quiet frankly with no offense intended to the person at SuSE who built the packages on the CDs...ULB's packages work..and work well. To use them you just have to choose gnome2 from the GUI login or you can change the line in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager from DEFAULT_WM="kde" to DEFAULT_WM="gnome". Or you can edit your .xinitrc and at the end specify which WM to start..it would look like this.. # finally start the window manager # # exec $WINDOWMANAGER· exec /opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session· It just depends on what you wish to do. But remember that the ULB packages are not a different take on Gnome for SuSE...James tries to stay true to where SuSE puts things..etc.etc. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.