Re: Gnome+IceWM
create your .xsession like this
gnome-session
this will do all the job. Xsession'll try to find your local .xsession and exec it. And gnome-session is the way to start gnome. If you have gnome-compliant window manager install you can changed that through gnome-control center.
Chanop
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 06:33:23PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Getting the gnome-session setup is a funny beast. There should be an
> easy way to do it, but I haven't found it. The docs aren't much help
> either. Anyway, what worked for me was to start icewm-gnome, in the
> regular fashion. Then execute gnome-nameservice &, panel &, and then
> gnome-session &. The I edited my ~/.xsession to look like the this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources #get some custom settings loaded
> esd -terminate -as 2 & #esound demon that shares
> exec gnome-session
>
> You'll probably have to futz with it a bit before it'll work. Note,
> it you "exec" something in a shell script, whatever that something
> does *replaces* the shell script. So, anything following will never
> be executed.
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