From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 20 12:32:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F84337B417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from main ([24.14.243.57]) by femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011220203234.TDRI18627.femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com@main>; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:32:34 -0800 Message-ID: <001001c18995$59f363e0$0300a8c0@jayyness.com> From: "Totally Jayyness" To: "Joe Clarke" Cc: References: <20011220140942.T85844-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Subject: Re: Gnome Woes Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:31:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Totally Jayyness wrote: > > > Ok, am able to get Gnome started now (thanks for the help on that one) > > > > But when I do startx, then twm loads... then I load Gnome which does start > > after warning me that I am not using a Window Manager for Gnome. And after > > Gnome does start, my desktop is HUGE... my mouse won't go beyond the screen > > size but the windows that are open go WAY below my screen... > > How did you install Gnome? Gnome built from ports: > > # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome > # make all install clean I installed Gnome via the /stand/sysinstall Configure Xserver and after I had that running I did Configure Xclient and I chose Gnome+Sawfish. So maybe I just am not starting Gnome correctly. I was doing startx, which launches twm, then I was doing /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session... and that is where it would give me the incorrect windows manager. So I need to run sawfish instead of twm, if I am reading what you wrote correctly. If I am at the CLI and try to run /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session without running startx first I get Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: SESSION_MANAGER=local/jbsd.ensynch.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2725 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: So do I need to configure startx to launch sawfish instead of twm? > > Installs sawfish as the default Gnome window manager. You can always go > into the Gnome Control Center, and change the window manager there. > > > > > I did a man gnome and saw that gdm is the preferred window manager of gnome > > so I am installing that now (or trying)... after it is installed, will I > > just be able to do a startx and it will load or do I have to change > > something somewhere to make gdm my default XServer? > > gdm is the display manager (the login screen), not the window manager. > Sawfish is the preferred (or at least default) Gnome window manager. > Other Gnome-compliant WMs are fvwm2, icewm, blackbox, afterstep, > WindowMaker, and Enlightenment. > > All window managers can be found in /usr/ports/x11-wm. > > If you want to use gdm, edit /etc/ttys, and add the line: > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on > > You'll also want to make sure the following is in /etc/pam.conf: > > gdm auth requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass > gdm account requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass > gdm session required pam_permit.so > > Joe > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message