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Re: Small problems from recent Potato upgrade



On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:50:34AM -0600, John Foster wrote
> I just upgraded a very stable pure Slink system to Potato and I have a
> few legacy problems ( I think)! 
> 
[snip]
> 
> For some reason Enlightenment is set as the default and the Gnome
> control panel will not change it. Yes I told it to write to the config
> files, during installation, but they seem to be in the /home/user
> directory, as root is OK.
> 

It sounds like you have a .xsession or .xinitrc file that starts
your window mamanger and then Gnome:  I'm not sure that Gnome will
kill your window manager if it didn't start it.

Try moving them out of the way, like

mv .xsession .xsession.slink
mv .xinitrc .xinitrc.slink

If this doesn't get you a working gnome desktop when you login, try replacing
.xsession and/or .xinit with a file containing just
#!/bin/sh
exec gnome-session

and set it executable; that should work.


John P.
-- 
huiac@camtech.net.au
john@huiac.apana.org.au
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