Currently I am starting gnome-2.1.40 on an ubunto 5.10 system in this manner:
I have a *.desktop file in /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions has this entry in it: Exec=/opt/gnome-2.14.0/bin/gnome-session-2.14.0 /opt/gnome-2.14.0/bin/gnome-session-2.14.0 contains the following: #!/bin/sh GARNOME=/opt/gnome-2.14.0 PATH=$GARNOME/bin:$GARNOME/sbin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GARNOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$GARNOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share:/usr/share XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GARNOME/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg GDK_USE_XFT=1 export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH GDK_USE_XFT XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session All seems to working fine except I get this error on starting the session: Warning Power Manager This program cannot start until you start the dbus system service. This is usually started by your operating system by default, and is normally called messagebus. It is strongly recommended you reboot your computer after starting messagebus. I assume I am not starting dbus correctly. What should I do? Thanks. -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
