Re: [e-users] Basic question, but one I couldn't find a definitive answer to

[Geoffrey <eso...@3t...>]

Hugh Taylor wrote:
> Thank you! By combining the information from Phil and Victor I was able
> to get E16 to come up without Gnome. Now I need to decide if I like it
> without the panel, menus, sound, etc.

You can run the gnome stuff on top of E.  I'm running gnome 2.0 on top 
of 16.5.  Simply invoke gnome-panels once E is up.  I've not automated 
this process since I rarely shut my box down.

> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:57, Victor V. Evtushenko wrote:
> 
> 
>>* Phil Morris <mor...@sh...> [021206 11:50]:
>>
>>
>>>If your running init 5 gdm session manager on boot then its trickier.
>>>You should have a session selection option menu where you can choose
>>>Gnome, KDE, failsafe, etc before logging in. What you need to do is
>>>run the GDM config tool or manually edit the session configs to create
>>>a *new* session that will load E only instead of gnome-session with E. 
>>
>>I have found that for me is easier to use "Default" session and change
>>my ~/.xsession to run E. ~/.xsession has to be executable, and contain
>>something like this:
>>
>>#!/bin/sh
>>/usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5&
>>xmodmap /home/ramzay/.speedswapper
>>/usr/local/enlightenment/bin/efm &
>>exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
>>
>>I'm not sure if this is recommended way or best one, but it works for
>>me.
>>
>>Victor.
> 
> 

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