Redhat 8 the hard way... adding GNOME afterwards

[scottprive at earthlink.net (Scott Prive)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Iadonisi" <pri.blu at iadonisi.to>
To: "BLU Discuss List" <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Redhat 8 the hard way... adding GNOME afterwards


> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:12:54PM -0500, Scott Prive wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > >   I *think* the switchdesk* apps have been deprecated.  Now, when you
log
> > > in from gdm, select the "Sessions" option on the bottom of the screen.
> > > Select gnome,
> >
> > GNOME is not a listed option; I have: Last, Default, Failsafe,
Windowmaker.
> >
> > Default boots twm; Last and Windowmaker are the same, and Failsafe is no
> > window manager at all.
>
>   Ah.  Does /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/GNOME exist?  It's contents are:
>
> exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession gnome
>
> and it is part of the gnome-session package.

BINGO! Thank you everyone.

That's what was missing. I installed gnome-session, restarted X, and GNOME
is now an option. I tested it, and it works. w00t! (Heh)







>
> >
> > >and then, if it's not your default, you will be asked if
> > > you want it to be the default for subsequent logins.
> > >   To set it globally for all users, but before they login for the
first
> > time
> > > (otherwise, their .Xclients* files will already have been setup by
their
> > > first login), change the DESKTOP= line in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to
> > > DESKTOP=GNOME, if it isn't that already.
> >
> > /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not exist, so I tried creating it with
> > DESKTOP=GNOME. Restarted X, still no luck.
>
>   Right, if gnome-session is missing, that would probably be the cause of
> this as well.  Otherwise, I'm stumped.
>
> --
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