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:D Ok, sao! I'll listen to you, I'll try everything all over again tonight!

sao -

well, all that stuff sort of worked. i had to remove and update and reinstall xfree86-rootless a few times, but finally, windowmaker appears. at least, i think it's doing it right. it only launches when i type XDarwinStartup -rootless. startx and just XDarwin do exactly what they've always done, either come up with an error message, or launch without a window manager.

i'm going to start installing the gnome now, and see how that affects windowmaker.

thanks again for all your help!

tar

tar,

If you have the same problem after installing gnome, try deleting in your home directory .gnome, .gnome-desktop and .gnome-private.

See how it goes and let me know.

Cheers...

How long should it take?

I've been following this thread, and am trying to work through the installation of GNOME. I ran the fink install like sao suggested, but I've been waiting for a freaking long time for it to compile (like 5+ hours). Should it take this long?

I think next time I'll use apt-get instead ;)

Thanks,
M@

depends on your iron. it's a long compile on some older rigs. is it still rolling? is the process cpu bound?

it runs faster if you don't watch it.

--
Abe Lincoln was asked how long a man’s legs should be.
His answer: "Long enough to reach the ground!"

I'm using a 500 mHz G4 powerbook. It is still trucking right along. I'll try not to watch it ;)

Thanks,
M@

mdale7,

Quoting myself from another thread:

<<It's normal. Depending on what kind of computer you're running (an old iMac, or the latest G4, etc) and what you're installing, this can be done in a matter of minutes or it can take well over a day.

Depends on the number & the kinds of packages: generally, mozilla, nautilus, evolution, and gnome all take a long time, while others are very fast.

Installing binaries is faster, but if you install from source you have the advantage to usually get newer software, and if you can leave it working overnight, then it shouldn't bother you so much.>>

Cheers...

Thanks guys,

It finally finished last night at 8:30.

Now I just have to get it working

M@

mdale7,

Let us know if you have any problems.

Good luck.

Cheers...

Sorry to be a bother.

When I try to run gnome-session from an xterm window within XDarwin, I get the message:

Gnome-ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory </Users/mattdale/.gnome/accels> - aborting

aborting...

Gnome-ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory </Users/mattdale/.gnome/accels> - aborting

aborting...
Abort

Here's fink list gnome:
Information about 606 packages read in 2 seconds.
i bundle-gnome 1.4-3 GNOME convenience package
fvwm2-no-gnome 2.4.6-2 X11 wind. man., large virtual desktop, v2, ...
i gnome-applets 1.4.0.5-2 Various applets for GNOME panel
i gnome-audio 1.4.0-3 Audio files for Gnome.
i gnome-core 1.4.0.6-3 Common files for Gnome core apps.
i gnome-core-dev 1.4.0.6-3 Common files for Gnome core apps.
i gnome-core-shli 1.4.0.6-3 Common files for Gnome core apps.
i gnome-games 1.4.0.3-6 GNOME games collection.
i gnome-games-dev 1.4.0.3-6 GNOME games collection.
i gnome-games-shl 1.4.0.3-6 GNOME games collection.
i gnome-libs 1.4.1.4-3 Base libraries for GNOME
i gnome-libs-dev 1.4.1.4-3 Base libraries for GNOME
i gnome-libs-shli 1.4.1.4-3 Base libraries for GNOME
gnome-pim 1.4.0-1 Calendar and address book for GNOME.
i gnome-print 0.35-3 Gnome Print - Printing libraries for GNOME.
i gnome-print-dev 0.35-3 Gnome Print - Printing libraries for GNOME.
i gnome-print-shl 0.35-3 Gnome Print - Printing libraries for GNOME.
i gnome-user-docs 1.4.1.1-2 General GNOME User Documentation
i gnome-utils 1.4.1.2-2 GNOME utility programs
i gnome-vfs 1.0.3-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries
i gnome-vfs-dev 1.0.3-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries
i gnome-vfs-shlib 1.0.3-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries
gnome-vfs-ssl 1.0.3-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries, wi...
gnome-vfs-ssl-d 1.0.3-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries, wi...
gnome-vfs-ssl-s 1.0.3-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries, wi...
gnomemm 1.2.2-3 C++ interface for the GNOME libraries
gnomemm-shlibs 1.2.2-3 C++ interface for the GNOME libraries

From this, I take it that the files are installed correctly. Also, the file Users/mattdale/.gnome/accels exists, but I cannot cd to it.

Here are the file permissions, are they correct?
[5:24pm][~] mattdale% ls -la | grep .gnome
drw------- 4 mattdale staff 264 Jul 14 16:57 .gnome
drwx------ 2 mattdale staff 264 Jun 30 11:38 .gnome_private

I am using windowmaker as my window manager, if that helps.

So sorry to bother y'all again, thanks so much for the help so far!

M@

mdale7,

Haven't seen this error before.

When you get the error, are you in rootless or fullscreen mode?

What cames out when you start gnome from the ~/.xinitrc file?

Code:

# Window Maker default X session startup script 



PATH="$PATH:/sw/bin" 



# If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear 

# in the console window. 

# 

# tail -f /Users/rich/.xsession-errors > /dev/console & 

exec gnome-session

Let me know.

Cheers...

Quote:

Here are the file permissions, are they correct?
[5:24pm][~] mattdale% ls -la | grep .gnome
drw------- 4 mattdale staff 264 Jul 14 16:57 .gnome
drwx------ 2 mattdale staff 264 Jun 30 11:38 .gnome_private

mdale7,

i think the .gnome dir need x access:

Code:

% chmod u+x ~/.gnome

mdale7,

You can try also to just remove all your ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome_private directories and start XDarwin again.

Let me know.

Cheers...

Thanks everyone,

When I changed the permissions for the files it worked! I am posting this on mozilla running in GNOME. Also, last night, I was able to get KDE working as well. Yahoo!

Thanks!

M@