Re: Help getting gnome up on Caldera...

[Judith Samson <judith samson usaserve net>]

Todd Chapman wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Paul and Elliot for thier replies.  On a follow-up though, I
> currently have my system configured in /etc/inittab to run kdm (KDE's login
> manager).  The docs for that said that I needed to enter 'startkde' in my
> .xsession file.  When I changed that to 'exec gnome-session', I still ended
> up in KDE.  Would you advise that rather than use kdm, I use xdm?  Or is
> there another file (global in nature) that I should be adding 'exec
> gnome-session' to or referencing the use of my .xsession file with?
> 
> Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul G Cooper <pgc@maths.warwick.ac.uk>
> To: Todd Chapman <toddc@ppgweb.com>
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Help getting gnome up on Caldera...
> 
> >
> >On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Todd Chapman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 1. group utmp does not exist, using root
> >> 2. gnome-print cannot be installed.  Execution of script failed.
> >
> >Don't know why this works but try doing
> >rpm -e gnome-print
> >rpm -Uvh gnome-print*.rpm
> >
> >I think some thing that the post install script is looking for isn't there
> >until a later rpm is installed. Well this worked for me on RH 6 - I
> >haven't had a chance yet to try on Caldera.
> >
> >> 3. /sbin/pidof No such file or directory
> >>
> >> When I run 'exec gnome-session' from the command line, I get 2 errors
> >> (twice):
> >>
> >> 1. Gdk - WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >> 2. Gtk - WARNING **: cannot open display
> >
> >You need to be running X for gnome-session to work (that's #2, don't know
> >if #1 is important or related). You should have gnome-session as the last
> >(and probably only) thing in your .xinitrc file. Think of .xinitrc is as a
> >list of things that X starts up once it's got started itself.
> >gnome-session takes care of starting window manager, file manager, panel,
> >etc so you don't really need anything else in the .xinitrc.
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >> Then it spits out a line of session manager info and repeats the 2
> >> errors above.
> >>
> >> I've searched through the docs and several months of gnome-list archives
> >> to no avail. Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Todd
> >>
> >>
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What does your .xinitrc file look like? Some distributions, mine
included, have a script in .xinitrc that looks for an exec in .Xclients.
If you want to 
have the option or switching between Gnome and KDE on startup, a script
like this can be useful. 

Look in .xinitrc for references to KDE or to .Xclients. IF you find any,
there is your problem. You can comment them out and add exec
gnome-session, and it should start gnome.