Re: RHAD Labs announces GNOME 1.0 RPMS for Red Hat Linux 5.2

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Michael Rogers wrote:
> >What I really want to know is why the gnome-core rpms have a
> >dependency on the enlightenment Window Manager?  I cannot see any
> >reason why. Gnome works fine with WindowMaker for me. It probably 
> >does with other WMs too.
> >
> >The reason I ask is that I think dependencies should not be made by 
> >the packagers preference of software unless there are some _real_
> >reasons. As I installed starbuck yesterday on my home computer I was
> >forced to install enlightenment to satisfy the dependency of the
> >gnome-core. When I finally got all installed I had to do a rpm -e to
> >remove enlightenment.
> 
>  I just compiled gnome from source without 
> freetype/fnlib/enlightenment, but I couldn't get gnome-session to 
> start with wm2. The panel plus wm2 worked fine, and I changed 
> "gnome-wm --sessionmanagerstuff" to "wm2" in 
> /usr/local/share/gnome/default.session and "WM=gnome-wm" to "WM=wm2" 
> in /usr/local/share/gnome/default.wm, but gnome-session wouldn't 
> start. (Btw my ~/.gnome/default.wm kept changing itself back to 
> "WM=xterm" - anyone know why?) 

Did you try leaving /usr/local/share/gnome/default.session as gnome-wm,
and export the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable with a value of "wm2"?
The gnome-wm script checks that first, and if it's not set, it tries a
list of likely window managers (wm2 is not on this list).  If it finds
nothing, it sets the window manager to be xterm, so you can at least do
something.

I don't know if wm2 supports session management.  If the above doens't
work, you might want to try explicitly the following as a .xinitrc:
   wm2 &
   exec gnome-session

But try the WINDOW_MANAGER trick first.

Best of Luck,
-Gleef