Do you have the packages locales and locales-en (assuming your
preferred language is English) installed? You can find them at
http://www.rpmfind.net/. Look for the Mandrake versions, or you can
get them off your Mandrake CD.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:55, Ross Slade wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > I had the same problem when I installed Helix (now Ximian) GNOME.
> >
> > After you have made entries for all your desktop environments, run
> > (as root) "/usr/sbin/chksession -l". Reboot and all should be
> > well.
> >
> > > [Mandrake 7.2]
> > >
> > > What I have left in the little drop down box where they appear
> > > is an option for "failsafe" (which still works) and one for KDE
> > > which when selected leaves me with Twm.
>
> Thanks, it's not being that simple, but your advise is obviously on
> the right track...
>
> I created three files in /etc/X11/wmsession.d (which was empty when
> I checked) with contents the same as you posted except for the
> essential details.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 Mar 15 16:40 01KDE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 Mar 15 16:40 02Xfce
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Mar 15 16:41 03IceWM
>
> Are the permissions ok?
>
> After rebooting what I got in the drop down box was "Xfce, default,
> failsafe" all on one line as I have written it here. What I got when
> I logged on was Twm aggin...
>
> On running chksession -t I get this result:
>
> ----------------------
> [root@bunyip] - [/etc/X11/wmsession.d]
> /usr/sbin/chksession -t
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = "en",
> LC_ALL = "en",
> LANG = "en"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale
> ("C").
> Can't open ./wmsession.d//01KDE
> ----------------------
>
> Whether it the locale problem which is the cause I don't know, but
> note the "//" in the last line.
>
> Any further ideas? Slow progress is good progress... 8-)
>
> -Ross
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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