On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:00:34PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> I included all changes proposed by Björn Knutsson.
>
> Now, I haven't heard very much from almost any tester. Is there
> anyone running these alphas under Gnome that can tell me how well that
> worked (I don't run Gnome myself, so I have some difficulty making any
> extended test)? Any complaints at all?
>
> To be very clear: I will assume that no news is good news, and that
> unless anyone speaks up, CTWM works perfectly for the intended
> purposes (including with Gnome). If I hear complaints after the final
> release that could have been sent to me before (for example by anyone
> on this list that does choose to test and then say nothing), I will be
> annoyed.
I have a very naieve(sp?) question... actually a "failure to understand"...
I've been using X since '87, with TWM until '96, with CTWM since.
I start X with "xinit" and have my .xinitrc start up the apps that I want
started (xterms, xcalendars, dclock, gkrellm, etc) and the last thing that
runs is "ctwm", not in the background.
I've moved this scenario across all the Unix machines I've used since '87.
Enter the desktops (CDE, KDE, GNOME, etc.)
Initially, I thought they were like souped-up window managers. But that can't
be because GNOME can utilize different window managers. And from what Richard
posted, it can use CTWM.
I'm confused as to how this works together...
What does a Desktop Manager like GNOME provide if it is using CTWM as the
window manager?
Can I set up my environment for GNOME w/ CTWM so that it looks just like my
"raw" setup now? No GNOME taskbar, no GNOME menus, just my CTWM tabular
workspace manager, tabular window manager, and my crude windows.
How would I fire this up? Do I add something to my .xinitrc file that
"starts GNOME", or do I use something like "startx" that will start GNOME
but then run CTWM as the window manager and skip all the other GUI GNOME
stuffs?
If any of you would do me the favor of helping me understand this situation,
I'd appreciate it. The reason it seems important is because when I try to run
some GNOME apps with things as I have them now, they complain about some
GNOME-ish stuff not being available. And when I posted a question/comment
about it, it seemed that no one else is having such trouble. So I think the
issue is w/ how I've got my environment set up rather than w/ CTWM...
Thanks a bunch!
-Michael
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