Re: GNOME desktop install.
Re: GNOME desktop install.
- Subject: Re: GNOME desktop install.
- From: lunar_dawn <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:37:49 -0800
- Organization: yes
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:14:11 +0100
Brian Durant <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am a newbie at this command line stuff, so I am having a hard time
> getting this sorted. What do I need to do? Install GDM? Do I have to
> setup a seperate xserver that runs from the terminal? I know this is
> pretty basic, but I need to ask stupid questions so that I can learn this.
>
> Cheeers,
>
> Brian
>
>
It's not really that basic and your questions are not stupid. :)
I've never tried to use gnome on OS X because it strikes me as a waste of resources. You can do it if you like, but just to run gnome apps doesn't require gnome. They should work just fine with quartz-wm or fluxbox or any X11 window manager. At least they do for me, but then I am using Darwin Ports (mostly just for sylpheed and the GIMP) so I don't know about the Fink stuff.
If you still want gnome, have a look at /sw/bin, /sw/X11R6/bin, or wherever Fink puts X11 binaries and see do you have binaries for gnome-session and a compatible window manager. For instance if quartz-wm is gnome-compliant you should be able to start X11 then type /sw/bin/gnome-session (or /sw/X11R6/bin, etc) in an xterm and it should work. My guess would be that quartz-wm isn't gnome-compliant, but you could get lucky. If it does't run that way then install metacity or sawfish. Either way you'll probably want to edit the xinitrc file (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc I believe) and replace the words "quartz-wm" with the path to the window manager you plan to use (i.e. "/sw/X11R6/bin/metacity & /sw/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" for a gnome session running on metacity).
hth,
ld
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