Re: gnome

[Morten Liebach <morten@mail1.stofanet.dk>]

On 28, jul, 2000 at 02:20:52 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> > > Hmm, not sure what the problem is, but to jump start GNOME in the past,
> > > I've used:
> > > 
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > xterm &
> > > exec gnome-session
> > > 
> > > Then from the xterm, I started a window manager, panel and gmc (if you
> > > like). Check the gnome-control-center to see what it says about the
> > > window manager, gmc and panel.  They all should be set for
> > > restart/recycle or some such.
> > 
> > That is tha hard way to do it, you should only need to start a
> > gnome-session, and the you can add and delete start-up programs from
> > gnomecc session capplet. By default panel, gmc and a few other things
> > should start up, and I think something is broken if it doesn't.
> 
> The operative words were "jump start" ;)  If x-window-manager points at
> a non-GNOME window manager "exec gnome-session" doesn't behave very
> well, for instance.

Oh, now I get it, the ``xterm &; exec gnome-session'' is just the first
time, and then the session management is fondled into doing it as you
want, right?!

Then we don't disagree.

Regards
		Morten

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