Re: Avoiding gpm before installing GNOME
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:08:05AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> FWIW, I _did_ have a problem with Gnome vs. gpm. It seems to be
> specific to Enlightenment WM, though; now that I switched back to
> WindowMaker it seems to be OK. gpm was periodically dying with "Too
> many open files". My guess is that Enlightenment doesn't properly
> shut down Unix sockets.
I run E as well as gpm on both slink and potato. I got gnome .deb files for
slink from our local mirror of gnome.
They work fine for me and I use xdm, not gdm, for my X -login.
regards,
Chhanop
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