That is more encouraging--now I get a black screen, cursor & oddly enough--gkrellm starts in its normal place with the last desktop background (I use a transparent theme).....So it is closer...my /usr/share/applications/gnome-shell.desktop looks like this:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=GNOME Shell Exec=sh -c "jhbuild -f ~/.jhbuildrc run gnome-shell --replace" NoDisplay=true X-GNOME-Provides=panel;windowmanager; X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Panel No problem with the--Here I meant "desktop file" not "shell script wrapper"--knew what you were talking about ;-) I'm so close--yet so far...don't normally do IRC so don't know what would be the easiest way to talk to RainCT--Would really like to know his method in more depth-----You have got me most of the way there & I thank you for that!!!!! I guess that I can try to get in contact with him--I'll fire up a client & see if I can talk to him--if you get a chance--could you send him my Email? THANK YOU!!!! Dean On 08/02/2009 01:45 PM, Ray Strode wrote: > Hi, > > >> I had just done a copy/paste for the >> xsession file & I am going to bet the problem is with my applications >> file...I tried it similar to your one, then called the shell >> straight...in all cases the session defaulted to 2.27 default. >> > RainCT on #gnome-shell managed to get this working in ubuntu by > modifying the shell script wrapper in /usr/share/xsessions such that > its Exec line only has one argument (a shell script). Apparently, the > ubuntu Xsession file doesn't allow multiple arguments passed to it. > > So just create a file: /usr/bin/gnome-shell-session.sh or similar with this > in: > > #!/bin/sh > exec gnome-session --default-session-key /desktop/gnome/session/shell_session > > run chmod +x /usr/bin/gnome-shell-session.sh > > and put gnome-shell-session.sh instead of gnome-session > --default-session.... in the xsession desktop file. > > --Ray > > -- Dean Loros autocrosser at ubuntuforums.org Performance by Design Ltd. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
