Re: Gnome2 in woody
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:45, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have installed gnome2 on my woody machines. On one machine, I put the
> following in ~/.xinitrc
>
> exec oroborus &
> exec gnome-session
>
> On this machine, I do not have gdm2 installed. So, when I use startx, I
> get the gnome-desktop with oroborus window manager.
>
> On another machine, I have gdm2 installed. But, if I put the above
> commands in ~/.xsession, I always get the icewm-gnome window manager.
> Actually whatever wm is pointed to at /etc/alternatives x-window-manager
> comes.
>
> I checked and could not find a way to set the default wm for the
> gnome-session using the gnome-control-center. How does one do it? Does
> not the ~/.xsession rote work anymore in gnome2?
>
> Any pointers to get this thing working properly?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Sridhar M.A.
>
> Well, the handwriting is on the floor.
> -- Joe E. Lewis
>
>
Is .xsession executable? If it isn't, it doesn't run, and the fallback
is to the global xsession.
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