Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 08:35:24 -0500 From: Ford Prefect <fordp@guide.chi.il.us> To: Nugzar Nebieridze <nugzar@caucasus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome and FreeBSD 3.2 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990908083524.00700d00@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <37D63928.41445584@caucasus.net>
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I found this problem myself awhile ago and asked a similar question. I also
inquired as to why we needed to exec an WM at all since gnome should handle
it. I got several answers that didn't solve the problem, but did start me
on a trail to solve it.... here's what I recall doing:
there is a /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnome directory...the contents of
/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnome should actually be in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome
(do a strings on a few gnome commands to see....)
You also need to set your gnome-wm, I forget the variable name, and this NT
box won't tell me, look in /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-wm or gnomewm or whatever
its just a shell script it should give you a variable named
GNOME_WINDOWMANGAGER or something similar.
create your .xinitrc to look something like:
GNOME_WINDOWMANAGER=enlightenment
exec gnome-session
actually I think gnome-wm defaults to enlightenment... which means you can
just use:
exec gnome-session
On another note:
you should only exec once in that shell script of yours,
exec gnome-session &
exec enlightenment
shouldn't work since exec replaces the current proccess, the second
proccess never gets run.. hence you never see either with that script
because gnome is taking over and not running properly (see above to fix)
and enlightenment never gets run.
Hope this helps.
-Steve
At 02:23 PM 9/8/99 +0400, you wrote:
>Hi All!
>
>I am a former Linux user, sevral days ago I installed FreeBSD 3.2.
>I like this system much more than Linux, but I ran into some problems
>when I decided to install Gnome 1.0.
>I added all the necessary packages, in my .xinitrc I appended
>
>exec gnome-session &
>exec enlightenment
>
>But when I start X server, I cannot see anything but enlightenment. None
>of the Gnome icons or panels.
>When I run GnomeICU, then the gnome panel appears, but as I see,
>enlightenment and Gnome are completely independent from each other. When
>in my .xinitrc I leave only the line with Gnome i.e.
>
>exec gnome-session
>
>then I can see neither Gnome nor enlightenment applets.
>
>Please, if anybody had such kind of problems answer me, or tell me where
>can I find the answer for my question.
>
>TIA
>Nugzar Nebieridze
>
>
>
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