On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:12:20PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:39:30PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > [...] > > > No, because the .gnome directory is needed by GNOME 1 application. > > > A, ok, ... > > > Mmm, but then, this mean that the transition stuff is in moving stuff > > out of .gnome and into .gnome2, and doing the transition, or do you do > > the transition inplace, keeping older gnome 1 application stuff ? > > We are not moving file from .gnome to .gnome2 but the files are only > copied. > > > In this later case, should i move the data from .gnome2 into .gnome by > > hand ? Or simply loose all the configurations. > > GNOME 2 applications use ~/.gnome2 and GNOME 1 applications use ~/.gnome > then if you move the files you lost yours configurations.
Ok, i will not touch anything, i am just wondering because the translation script doesn't know i have already installed gnome2. > > manager you need to use update-alternatives to select your prefered > > window manager. > > > Erm, yes, sure i know about this, and like i said, it is the third or > > more time that i use update-alternatives on this box, but somehow > > something keeps reseting this to some other default (twm when > > twm+metacity is available, sawfish if sawfish, twm and metacity is > > available). > > Did you select the gnome session in gdm ? Apparently you are using the > xsession choice. Naturally, i am using the Gnome session. I never used the xsession at all. Friendly, Sven Luther
