Re: Gnome install
On Friday 30 November 2001 21:15, Laurent Jacques wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2001 09:41, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > You probably aren't starting gnome-session to get gnome, but are instead
> > starting WindowMaker as a window manager.
> >
> > If you start gnome-session instead of a window-manager, it will start
> > the window-maker for you.
>
> In fact, I launch my gnome session through kdm with the "gnome" choice.
> In fact, kdm executes the /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession script with "gnome" as
> argument $1. Inside this Xsession, the gnome section contains these lines
> inside a switch:
> ==
> gnome)
> exec gnome-session
> ;;
> ==
>
> It seems that gnome-session is actually launched !
> So, I'm hitting my head on the wall but nothing change Doctor !
Finally, It seems that the gnome-wm script (launched by gnome-session)
checked every time what was the symbolic link of
'/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager' with readlink, and then, autoconfigure
the default window manager of gnome. In my case, this was windowmaker.
So, I have corrected this manually and sawfish is running correctly now.
But I have still now two surprises:
- gnome is verrrryyyy slooooowwww at startup. About 2 minutes on a PII 400Mhz;
- gmc was not launched until I try it on the command line which caused the
writting of some configuration files in ~/.gnome/. Now gmc starts at every
gnome startup but without the typical desktop icons like the trash, the home
dir, etc ... ?
It is a bit strange for me that I have to configure all my gnome by hand and
step by step. This is why I think it lacks something important in my
config/package list.
So, my question is again: do you know/have a page with a complete description
of a successful gnome installation on the debian woody containing the list of
all the important packages ?
Thank you very much,
L. Jacques
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