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

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