Anyone? Anyone at all? Pretty please? Hi, I installed gnome and removed KDE from an installation. Now when I reboot I cannot get gnome to start, but rather icewm. When I go into that wm's control panel and look I cannot see gnome listed. But it's there in /usr/X11RC/bin/gnome . I looked in .xinitrc and thought I had inserted the right line after kde: elif text -x /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome ; then WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome But this was a guess - can anyone help? Thanks, NIck
On Monday 29 July 2002 20.00, Nick Selby wrote:
Anyone? Anyone at all?
Pretty please?
#1: gnome isn't a window manager, it is a desktop environment. It uses other window managers, one of which is icewm. #2: Are you starting from command line with startx or from kdm/gdm/xdm? Have you tried "startx gnome" or possibly "startx /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome"? //Anders
On Monday 29 July 2002 20:07, Anders Johansson wrote:
#1: gnome isn't a window manager, it is a desktop environment. It uses other window managers, one of which is icewm.
Doh! And there I was all proud of myself for installing the sucker over the network and all.
#2: Are you starting from command line with startx or from kdm/gdm/xdm?
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Have you tried "startx gnome" or possibly "startx /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome"? Yes, that works. I'd like to make this work on startup - when the thing starts up it goes right into gnome. Can you point me at the right config file?
Thanks, Nick
On Monday 29 July 2002 21.15, Nick Selby wrote:
#2: Are you starting from command line with startx or from kdm/gdm/xdm?
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Which is it? The config files are different for each of them
Have you tried "startx gnome" or possibly "startx /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome"?
Yes, that works.
Good, so gnome is properly installed
I'd like to make this work on startup - when the thing starts up it goes right into gnome.
You want to start up in gnome directly on bootup, without logging in?
Can you point me at the right config file?
Depends on how you want things to work. If you want to boot directly into gnome without logging in, you may have to write a startup script. I don't think there's a "pre-fab" way of doing it. //Anders
On Monday 29 July 2002 21:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
You want to start up in gnome directly on bootup, without logging in?
No. I'd like a friendly-looking login manager - say the one that defaults with SuSE - to greet me asking for user name and password, and when I enter one and the other, it brings me into gnome. What I got now is a very basic screen with enormous login boxes and no choices of desktop, with a pixellated penguin and the words "Welcome At Suse Linux".
On Monday 29 July 2002 21.44, Nick Selby wrote:
On Monday 29 July 2002 21:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
You want to start up in gnome directly on bootup, without logging in?
No. I'd like a friendly-looking login manager - say the one that defaults with SuSE - to greet me asking for user name and password, and when I enter one and the other, it brings me into gnome. What I got now is a very basic screen with enormous login boxes and no choices of desktop, with a pixellated penguin and the words "Welcome At Suse Linux".
aha, that sounds like xdm. Check /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. What does it say in the variable DISPLAYMANAGER? If it says "xdm", change it to "kdm", run SuSEconfig and restart. //Anders
On Monday 29 July 2002 21:55, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 29 July 2002 21.50, Anders Johansson wrote:
change it to "kdm"
or perhaps "gdm", which is the gnome equivalent of kdm, since you said you removed kde from the installation
Changed it to "gdm", ran SuSEconfig and rebooted. Same as before...
On Monday 29 July 2002 22:52, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 29 July 2002 22.06, Nick Selby wrote:
Changed it to "gdm", ran SuSEconfig and rebooted.
Same as before...
is gdm installed?
Check with "rpm -q gdm"
You'd think that I would have checked that. Thanks as always, Anders, for your help. nick
2002-07-30 00.42 skrev Nick Selby: :: On Monday 29 July 2002 22:52, Anders Johansson wrote: :: > On Monday 29 July 2002 22.06, Nick Selby wrote: :: > > Changed it to "gdm", ran SuSEconfig and rebooted. :: > > :: > > Same as before... :: > :: > is gdm installed? :: > :: > Check with "rpm -q gdm" :: :: You'd think that I would have checked that. Thanks as always, Anders, for :: your help. :: :: nick Have you checked if /var/lib/gdm is owned by gdm:shadow ? -- "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" -- "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas (circa 1920)
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:11, Anders Dahlqvist wrote:
:: > is gdm installed? :: > :: > Check with "rpm -q gdm" ::
Have you checked if /var/lib/gdm is owned by gdm:shadow ?
It isn't but the above rpm command got me "gdm is not installed" I'll install it and then check the ownership - thanks for that! Nick
On 29 Jul 02, Nick Selby (php@nickselby.com) wrote:
On Monday 29 July 2002 20:07, Anders Johansson wrote:
#1: gnome isn't a window manager, it is a desktop environment. It uses other window managers, one of which is icewm.
Doh! And there I was all proud of myself for installing the sucker over the network and all.
#2: Are you starting from command line with startx or from kdm/gdm/xdm?
kdm/gdm/xdm -
Have you tried "startx gnome" or possibly "startx /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome"? Yes, that works. I'd like to make this work on startup - when the thing starts up it goes right into gnome. Can you point me at the right config file?
Do you have a .xsession or .xinitrc file? These are usually executed on graphical login. -- Stephen Patterson Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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