Tried that. There is an opt/gnome directory so I am assuming it is installed. Opened an xterm, typed 'gnome-session' and got an unknown command error. rh On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Paul Sims wrote: > look in /opt - if Gnome is home you'll have an /opt/gnome directory. If > it's installed, with any windowmanager running type "gnome-session" in an > xterm. >

-----Original Message----- From: reg hughson [SMTP:rhughson@home.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 1:32 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] gnome

Can someone tell me how I can get gnome to work. I did select it as an option to install but trying to switch to gnome using methods suggested by others previously on this list, doesn't work? How do I check to make sure it is installed for example? I want to try Gnome instead of KDE just to make up my own mind which one I like better. And why doesn't Suse provide updates to gnome on its ftp site like it does for KDE?

rh

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Hello, Well, the easiest way to get gnome running is to put gnome-session in your .xinitrc by itself. You should mv your .xinitrc to xinitrc so that it won't be sourced when you start X and then just create a new one with only "exec gnome-session" in it..minus the quotes. I run the combo of iceWM/gnome and it seems to work quite nicely accept when I play Quake 3..which is such a resource hog, so for that I just exit and restart using wm2 for gaming..it works great. laters, reg hughson wrote:

Tried that. There is an opt/gnome directory so I am assuming it is installed. Opened an xterm, typed 'gnome-session' and got an unknown command error.

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