Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-08-01 Thread egm2
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | Eric G. Miller wrote: | | > gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you | > have running. | | The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session | will sometimes lose all your customizations. I act

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-07-31 Thread Carl Fink
Eric G. Miller wrote: > gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you > have running. The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session will sometimes lose all your customizations. I actually tried gnome-session once and it worked okay, but that war

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-07-31 Thread egm2
On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: Try doing this: 1. Login to Xwindows as you now have it. 2. At the command line, execute 'gnome-name-service &' 3. Then execute, 'gmc &', 'panel &', 'gnome-session &' 4. Now edit your .xsession, to read like: #!/bin/sh exec gnome-session gnome

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-07-31 Thread P. van Tilburg
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:11:56AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > And I fixed it. I also modified my .xsession file as suggested at > www.gnome.org, so it looked like this: > > > /usr/bin/gnome-terminal & > /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome & > /usr/bin/panel > > Adding either of the other lines (or trying

.xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-07-31 Thread Carl Fink
Well, I partly solved my previous problem. I had written that my .xsession file wasn't being read. I found out why: some package had screwed up [1] my /etc/X11/Xsession file so that the line $HOME/.xsession wasn't being executed. Okay, once I solved that it was easy to fix, right? And I fixed