Re: Gnome

[Scott Henson <shenson2@sandm.hn.org>]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:19, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 19:36, wires wrote:
> 
> > nautilus &
> > icewm-gnome &
> > panel
> 
> no. .xinitrc should read
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec gnome-session

true but you have to make sure you have gnome-session installed. 
 
> Then you can start X+Gnome with startx. You'll get a default session
> with most common stuff running.
> If it works and if you want to have a graphical login, install gdm. It
> lets you choose gnome as a Session type from the menu.
> 
> If you do a 
> 
> apt-cache search gnome 

Maybe go through tasksel instead.  But the desktop task will include a
KDE as well.  Maybe go in there and look at the help.  It will tell you
what packages will be installed.  Or even better:
apt-cache search gnome | grep -v lib | grep gnome | less
That should tell you what there is to be gotten. 
 
> on the command line, you should get most gnome packages listed,
> apt-cache show <packagename> gives mor info, then install with apt-get.

I would acctually suggest:

apt-get install icewm-gnome nautilus gnome 
apt-get dselect-upgrade

This should give you a basic gnome system then pull in all the
recommends(or is that suggests or both?).
 
> Standard Gnome window manager for gnome 1.4 is sawfish, so you want that
> too (or rather, sawfish-gnome)

IceWM is much better than sawfish (IMHO). 

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