On 9/11/06, Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:30:21AM -0400, Christopher Conroy wrote:
> Anyone here know how to setup one of the CS solaris boxes (i.e. the ones in
> the TA room) to use gnome as the desktop environment instead of this crappy
> CDE which always launches fvwm. I tried changing the line in my .xinitrc
> which does which fvwm to which gnome-session, but I just get a gnome session
> launched inside fvwm, and that seems to do all sorts of nasty to my panel.
>
> They must taunt me with .gnome files and no way to choose gnome from the
> login manager....
I'm fairly sure they are using Xdm (graphical login) so you need to
use either .Xclients (needs to be chmod a+x) or .xsession instead of
.xinitrc . Of course, `man xdm` says nothing useful :-( If that doesn't
work, you could always just mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them :-)
- Rob
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Christopher Conroy
