Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:09:27 +0100 (MET) From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> To: SuSE Linux Mailing List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] starting gnome in SuSE 6 Hi, On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Michael Perry wrote: > I included all the gnome stuff. So how do I start it. The gnome pages > say to exec gnome-session while suse says to startx after starting a > window manager in .xinitrc. None of these seem to work. Is there > some central config. file I need to implement to see some gnomish > behavior? Since gnome does not contain a window manager, we created a little shell script (/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome), which allows you to choose your window manager on startup. Just set the environment variable "WINDOWMANAGER" to "gnome" and start X. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html