On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Birdy Complex wrote: > >From another loon: > > This is the same message I got when I was using one window manager > (twm) for X windows and another for Gnome (sawfish). > > Presuming that you are doing the same thing, I suggest doing the > following: > > Duplicate the file etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc so you have a backup. > Edit that file (sudo pico etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc). > Down near the bottom, it'll say: > twm & > xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & > Change twm to sawfish or whatever other window manager you wanna use.
Actually, for GNOME, you can have gnome-session as the last line of xinitrc (no &), and don't call another window manager above it, because gnome-session calls sawfish by default. However, if you'd rather have another wm, then you can call it, e.g.: fvwm2 & gnome-session Alex > > > Currently, I use Apple's X11 and I believe it ignores this file, as it > always uses its own window manager (which I think is "quartz-wm"). Apple X11 should read your .xinitrc > > And then, to directly answer your question, I start Gnome with > gnome-session > but that's probably not the only way. > > hth, > Complex > > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Nils Crompton wrote: > > > how do you start gnome? I installed 'DevTools Dec2002', then 'fink > > selfupdate-cvs' and 'fink update-all' then 'fink install bundle-gnome'. > > All A ok. But if I launch XDarwin and type 'gnome-session' or > > 'gnome-wm' in xterm it says: > > > > [nilsmac:~] nilscrompton% gnome-wm > > You may only run one window manager > > [nilsmac:~] nilscrompton% > > > > or.. > > > > [nilsmac:~] nilscrompton% gnome-session > > _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > > SESSION_MANAGER=local/nilsmac.local.:/tmp/.ICE-unix/10848 > > You may only run one window manager <snip> > > > > I assume I am a total loon. > > > > nils > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
