Re: GNOME desktop install.
Re: GNOME desktop install.
- Subject: Re: GNOME desktop install.
- From: Brian Durant <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:14:35 +0100
lunar_dawn wrote:
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. :)
Thanks.
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.
I've looked at the home page, but still not sure what the difference is
between them is Darwin Ports related to OroborOSX?
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
What is the difference between the "bundle-gnome" for Fink and
"gnome-desktop"??? I installed only the "gnome-desktop" and there are
folders with the same name under ~/sw/share/doc/ and ~/sw/share/omf.
You may be right about the amount of resources, but firstly I am doing
this to learn more about the system and secondly because the packages
are there. If it slows down the system too much, I could always
uninstall, right?
The thing is that there are quite a number of X11 based apps that I have
learned to love and use on a regular basis, from when I ran Linux on my
old Win 2k/Libranet box and I have yet to get a Linux system to work
properly yet on my extra internal SATA drive. I have a G5 single tower
(PowerMac 9.1).
Cheers,
Brian
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