On 19 Apr 99 17:24:42 +0100, you wrote:
[we were discussing the gnome rpms as build by SuSE,
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/GNOME/glibc/1.0.x/]
>(As I said in my original mail) I think the only way is to remove all the
>orginal rpms and then install the new ones. It seems the package names
>don't match up at all and also the contents of the packages don't match up.
>
>The main thing I couldn't get working was gnome starting windowmaker as the
>window manager. When I log in (from kdm for a gnome session) it doesn't
>start a windowmanager and I have to type wmaker at the prompt. This is a
>real pain. I've set wmaker as the window manager in the gnome control
>center but it doesn't seem to take any notice of it... :(
(this was starting wmaker as the window manager for gnome)
I've fixed this by copying the "gnome" and "gnomewm" scripts from
/usr/X11R6/bin as installed by the "other" gnome SuSE rpms (from
http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/Pub/ifmpc118.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/gnome.html) to
/usr/X11R6/bin (i.e. I've kept them). I can now log on using KDM to a gnome
session and it starts up windowmaker. I also copied the icons/pixmaps that
were included from the other rpms from the directories:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/WindowMaker/Pixmaps
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/WindowMaker/Icons
And things are fine now.
I've attached the two scripts to this mail as they are only quite small.
The *only* problem I now have is that I can't add the pager applet to the
gnome panel, it complains saying I'm not running a gnome compliant window
manager, try Enlightenment DR0.15. Has gnome changed between 1.0.3 and
1.0.5 so that windowmaker is no longer compliant? I've been using wmaker
0.51.0-2 with gnome 1.0.3 and the pager applet works fine - with SuSE's
gnome 1.0.5 and wmaker 0.51.1-8 it isn't?
Cheers,
Jamie
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Designer Impact Analysis Team phone : 0118 92 45052
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#!/bin/bash
#
# (C) 1998, S.u.S.E. GmbH, Fuerth
# Author: Martin Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
export GNOMEDIR=/opt/gnome
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GNOMEDIR/lib
export PATH=$GNOMEDIR/bin:$PATH
#
# try to get the right window manager
#
WINDOWMANAGER=`gnomewm`
#
# if it failed, do fvwm2 as standard
#
test -z "$WINDOWMANAGER" && WINDOWMANAGER=fvwm2
export WINDOWMANAGER
#
# start the window manager
#
$WINDOWMANAGER &
#
# exec gnome-session as last program, so everything stops when
# gnome is ended
#
exec gnome-session
#!/bin/bash
#
# (C) 1998, S.u.S.E. GmbH, Fuerth
# Author: Martin Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
#
# get language from environment
#
case "$LANG" in
de*)
TITLE="Windowmanager-Auswahl"
LANGUAGE=german
;;
fr*)
TITLE="S�lection du gestionnaire de fen�tre"
LANGUAGE=english
;;
it*)
TITLE="Selezione del window manager"
LANGUAGE=english
;;
*)
TITLE="Choose a Window Manager"
LANGUAGE=english
;;
esac
case "$1" in
#
# called if interactive selection is wanted
#
-list)
type -p wmlist &> /dev/null \
&& OLDLIST=`wmlist` \
|| OLDLIST="fvwm2"
WMLIST=""
for i in $OLDLIST
do
case "$i" in
gnome|*kde|kwm) continue;;
*) WMLIST="$WMLIST$i ";;
esac
done
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
case "`rpm -q listexec 2> /dev/null`" in
listexec-0.4*) TOPT="-t";;
*) TOPT="-i";;
esac
echo "$WMLIST" | listexec -g +160+120 $TOPT "$TITLE" -l "$LANGUAGE" -e
"gnomewm"
#
# .gnomewm always has to contain something!
#
test -f ~/.gnomewm || echo "fvwm2" > ~/.gnomewm
;;
#
# just to read the settings
#
"")
test -f ~/.gnomewm \
&& cat ~/.gnomewm \
|| gnomewm -list;;
#
# do this to write settings, called from gnomewm -list
#
*)
echo "$1" > ~/.gnomewm
echo "$1";;
esac
#
# we are always happy...
#
exit 0
