Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-25 Thread Bertrand Duret
Le Samedi 13 Juillet 2002 10:31, Marco Fioretti a écrit : On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 10:04:54 at 10:04:54AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: What sessions are available for selection in the menus of the GDM screen, or are there any? I'm at home now, will check monday, but as far as I remember it

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-25 Thread Matt Wilson
I'm at home now, will check monday, but as far as I remember it says last, failsafe, default, gnome. I am certainly late, but just coming back from holidays :-) Why don't you use default session ? It will make gdm run your ~/.xsession and nothing else. I haven't run gdm since a long

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-14 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 02:10:44 at 02:10:44AM +0200, Gerrit Hoetzel wrote: What happens if you try to kill X with CTL+ALT+BKSP or similar methods ? Marco seems to be using gdm which (by default) restarts the X server. I dont't see a way of killing gdm (which runs as root). Correct,

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 23:08:34 at 11:08:34PM +, David Barr wrote: hi, if you are using gnome2 you could use openbox ( http://openbox.sunsite.dk/ ) which is net_wm /gnome complient, and basically blackbox(+), plus it's pretty spiffy. if you are using gnome1.x i don't know. david

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 10:04:54 at 10:04:54AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: What sessions are available for selection in the menus of the GDM screen, or are there any? I'm at home now, will check monday, but as far as I remember it says last, failsafe, default, gnome. I tried yesterday to

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 14:14:12 at 02:14:12PM -0700, paul wrote: Here's what I do on the RedHat/Gnome system at school: - Log into to Failsafe Xterm mode. This gives me an xterm with no window frame, but if I move the mouse over it, I can enter commands. - Run an executable script named

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I didn't know about openbox. In the office I have stock RH 7.2, which doesn't have gnome 2 has it? I'll try it at home, though. openbox is a fork of blackbox 0.62.1. They basically did a lot of the same work as the 0.65 series (STL, cleanups) as well as new stuff -- netwm, wheel mouse,

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 13 July 2002 05:06 am, you wrote: So basically if you want a specific feature not in blackbox and going over to fluxbox scares you then openbox may be then solution until blackbox acquires your feature. Just out of curiousity, why would Fluxbox scare anyone? -- D. Olson The

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Jansens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 July 2002 4:06 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I didn't know about openbox. In the office I have stock RH 7.2, which doesn't have gnome 2 has it? I'll try it at home, though. openbox is a fork of blackbox 0.62.1. For the record.

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread paul
Marco Fioretti declaimed: On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 14:14:12 at 02:14:12PM -0700, paul wrote: Here's what I do on the RedHat/Gnome system at school: - Log into to Failsafe Xterm mode. This gives me an xterm with no window frame, but if I move the mouse over it, I can enter commands. -

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 18:08:43 at 06:08:43PM -0400, Scott Furt wrote: What happens if you try to kill X with CTL+ALT+BKSP or similar methods ? Ach, I didn't think about it at all... :-( I'll try it monday, it would really solve it for good! Ciao, Marco Fioretti --

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Gerrit Hoetzel
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:08:43PM -0400 Scott Furt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind that I don't need GNOME at all, I just got it with the PC, and, again, requests to change the default install, i.e. to mess with gdm or such, are going to be ignored, for the more or less right

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-13 Thread Gerrit Hoetzel
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:54:04PM +0200 Marco Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, here at work I've been finally given a PC with Linux Red Hat 7.2 and blackbox-0.61.1-2. Distro and/or blackbox version cannot be changed because of company policies too shameful to discuss them here.

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-12 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Fri, Jul12,02 15:54, Marco Fioretti wrote: Hello, here at work I've been finally given a PC with Linux Red Hat 7.2 and blackbox-0.61.1-2. Distro and/or blackbox version cannot be changed because of company policies too shameful to discuss them here. Also, I have no root password. The

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-12 Thread Marco Fioretti
Well... you COULD try to press ALT+F(2-6) to see if they've configured GDM to run on all the terminals (Since this tends to be quite tricky, there's high probability that they haven't), in which circumstance you should just be able to login via text console, then run startx as per

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-12 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Fri, Jul12,02 16:10, Marco Fioretti wrote: Well... you COULD try to press ALT+F(2-6) to see if they've configured GDM to run on all the terminals (Since this tends to be quite tricky, there's high probability that they haven't), in which circumstance you should just be able to login

Re: Blackbox/GNOME conflicts

2002-07-12 Thread paul
Marco Fioretti declaimed: Hello, here at work I've been finally given a PC with Linux Red Hat 7.2 and blackbox-0.61.1-2. Distro and/or blackbox version cannot be changed because of company policies too shameful to discuss them here. Also, I have no root password. The problem: the PC has