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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
