On Friday 30 November 2001 21:15, Laurent Jacques wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2001 09:41, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > You probably aren't starting gnome-session to get gnome, but are instead > > starting WindowMaker as a window manager. > > > > If you start gnome-session instead of a window-manager, it will start > > the window-maker for you. > > In fact, I launch my gnome session through kdm with the "gnome" choice. > In fact, kdm executes the /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession script with "gnome" as > argument $1. Inside this Xsession, the gnome section contains these lines > inside a switch: > == > gnome) > exec gnome-session > ;; > == > > It seems that gnome-session is actually launched ! > So, I'm hitting my head on the wall but nothing change Doctor !
Finally, It seems that the gnome-wm script (launched by gnome-session) checked every time what was the symbolic link of '/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager' with readlink, and then, autoconfigure the default window manager of gnome. In my case, this was windowmaker. So, I have corrected this manually and sawfish is running correctly now. But I have still now two surprises: - gnome is verrrryyyy slooooowwww at startup. About 2 minutes on a PII 400Mhz; - gmc was not launched until I try it on the command line which caused the writting of some configuration files in ~/.gnome/. Now gmc starts at every gnome startup but without the typical desktop icons like the trash, the home dir, etc ... ? It is a bit strange for me that I have to configure all my gnome by hand and step by step. This is why I think it lacks something important in my config/package list. So, my question is again: do you know/have a page with a complete description of a successful gnome installation on the debian woody containing the list of all the important packages ? Thank you very much, L. Jacques
