Re: So close, yet so far...

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

Try commenting out the call to enlightenment and just having the
gnome-session call in there.  gnome-session should attempt to start
enlightenment on its own if it is in your path.  If it doesn't start
enlightenment or the panel or something like that, try deleting ~/.gnome
and trying again.

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Fred Dunn wrote:

> OK, I've "mastered" getting Gnome installed.  Now the hard part, editing the
> X startup files.  I made what I thought were appropriate edits to
> $HOME/.Xclients to no avail.  I added a call to /usr/bin/enlightenment and
> exec gnome-session.  Gnome seems to start up but I don't get the panel at
> the bottom of the screen.
> 
> Enlightenment starts up (the progress bar on the screen completes) and then
> a message comes up telling me "another window manager is already running".
> I can't seem to get rid of it.  Although Gnome basically seems to be there
> there's no nice panel at the bottom.
> 
> Please help a Linux newbie!  Someone else on the list asked how to edit the
> startup files and got the answer "use vi".  While technically this may be
> correct there's many of us who don't yet grok the zen of X Windows startup
> files.  A nice step-by-step guide would be extraordinarily useful!  What
> should the ~/.Xclients and xinitrc files look like?  Redhad 5.2 builds these
> quite complex ones.
> 
> 
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Marcus Brubaker
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