On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Brian Haberman wrote:

> I just installed Gnome and metacity and tried to start up Gnome from
> X11.app, but I got an error, and I just can't figure out what to do.  I
> had been reading the archives for this mailing list and changed my
> .xinitrc file to be:
>
> PATH="$PATH:/sw/bin"
>
> quartz-wm --only-proxy &

One note--by calling quartz-wm here, you aren't running metacity.  If you
want to have metacity, call it instead of quartz-wm.


> exec gnome-session
>
> When I launch x11.app, I get the Gnome splash screen, then the
> following error in an error dialog box.
>
> There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not
> work correctly.
> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> The last error message was:
> Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
> in.
>
> Any ideas what I should do?
>
I get a lot of similar errors with gnome and quartz-wm.  Try starting up
with metacity and see if things are better.

> Thanks for the help.
>
> Brian
>
>
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