Re: Stable Readiness of Potato GNOME (?)
Jim,
I am a similar user as you describe yourself. I got GNOME running, but never
in a way, that I would have said that is good enough for the users to be the
default (problems, like some exit buttons shut only GNMOE, but not the WM
down...). Although I have to admit, that I never tried for a day or so to
solve this problem as good as possible. I had the impression, that the Debian
GNMOE integration is simply not yet ready for me.
Thus I give the users (via wdm) no the choice between
windowmaker
KDE
fvwm
(maybe also icewm).
--Rainer.
>
> Rainer -
>
> I have been running Linux, X windows, and Debian for several years,
> but I was not able to get Gnome running. I, too, seemed to be lacking
> something critical. Did you get any responses to your posting? (I
> don't think there were any in the mailing list archives.) Did you
> ever figure it out?
>
> - Jim Van Zandt
>
>
> >cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org, coolo@kde.org
> >Reply-To: rainer.dorsch@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:30:35 +0200
> >From: Rainer Dorsch <rainer@rai16.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
> >Resent-From: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
> >X-Mailing-List: <debian-testing@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/2661
> >
> >
> >I installed a new potato system and, frankly, I am somewhat disappointed about
> >the GNOME situation (although the rest of the system works excellent). It
> >might be, that it is only a matter of missing documentation.
> >
> >What I did:
> >
> >I selected
> >
> >Gnome Apps
> >Gnome Desktop
> >Gnome Games
> >Gnome Net
> >
> >during a simple installation.
> >
> >What happend (after setting up X, ...):
> >
> >1. xdm started. When logging in, TWM started. No sign of GNOME
> >2. I decided to install gdm instead of xdm. Maybe it is easier to start GNOME
> >with gdm
> >3. GNOME started (panel) but NO window manager started
> >4. I started wmaker using the Control Center of GNOME
> >5. Logged out, logged in. GNOME and wmaker started. But now wmaker placed its
> >icons over the GNOME panel.
> >6. Searched for documentation: dhelp: misc/GNOME FAQ/ Not Debian specific
> >documentation
> >7. Search /usr/doc
> >8. Found /usr/doc/gnome-core/README.Debian:
> >The previous maintainers' .xsession file looked something like this:
> >--
> >xsetroot -solid slategrey &
> >xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
> >fvwm2 &
> >exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
> >9. No change at all
> >10. Writting this email now (and being close to adding
> >deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib
> >to /etc/apt/sources.list)
> >
> >Hopefully I only missed a single line somewhere, which avoids all the trouble
> >for others.
> >
> >I just added Coolo, to show him that many Debian users might appreciate his
> >work.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Rainer.
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