Re: [Imd-linux-beta_1] Installing/Running, RH 9

[Sean S. <ss...@ma...>]

Okay...permissions were the ticket. Thanks! (it's always the small stuff
that gets 'ya)

So I now have 5Dwm running under Red Hat 9, with GDM...here are some
notes:

(1) Use the Xsession.dt script included in

=2E/imd4linux.desktop.foundation.beta1/Xsession.dt

as the script run by gdm in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions

__BUT__

be sure to move the "5Dwm &" line to the end of the script, and run it in
the foreground (e.g. just "5Dwm")

Alternatively, create a dummy "User" Sessions that just runs
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession (with no arguments) and place the script in your
home directory as .xsession

(2) I'm not sure how many of the "toolchest" operations are supposed to
work out-of-the-box other than those that bring up the Gnome managers and
mxterm.  On this system, very few of them seem to.  (Color Scemes would be
an example)

(2a) Tracing through the core files generated, a lot of the problems seem
to be stemming from the tls (thread local storage) libs on RH9, so this is
probably not an issue for others.  I've seen this thing before recently,
and it's a mess to deal with w/out source - so here's crossing my
fingers. Grin.

(3) I can't figure out how to get the login effect to work (as seen in a
screenshot on the 5Dwm home page)

(4) Gnome preferences don't seem to be persistent across sessions.  If I
logout and log back in, things like my background and theme settings are
not restored.  This is a big gripe.

(5) Overall, look & Feel are Great.  (I worked at SGI for 5 years and
still use IR2/3/4 on a daily basis...I feel like I'm sitting in front of
an SGI box as I type this! Great work Eric!)  I'm going to try it on a
multi-head RH8 linux box tomorrow...should be a good test.

(6) Would like some convient way of altering elements in the toolchest so
that "Web Browser" could be something other than netscape.  (This may be
in a config file somewhere, but I can't seem to find it)

(7) Missing desktop icons for CDs/Home Directory/etc - perhaps operator
error ?

That's all for now...let me know if I can help with Red Hat 8 or 9
systems...

cheers,

sean

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, [ISO-8859-1] S=E9bastien Taylor wrote:

> What are the permissions on that IndigoMagic script?
>
> Le Lundi, 7 juil 2003, =E0 13:09 Canada/Mountain, Sean Spicer a =E9crit :
>
> >
> > I should have added that the sessions immediately kicks me back to the
> > gdm
> > login screen, with no ./xsession-errors file.
> >
> > Oh, and that "mwm" in the script is really a "5dwm". (I promise. Grin)
> >
> > sean
> >
> > _______________________________________________________
> > Sean Spicer
> > Sr. Development Lead
> > Magic-Earth, Inc (A Halliburton Company)
> > www.magic-earth.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Sean Spicer wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Gang,
> >>
> >> Before the flaming starts, I didn't really expect things to work, but
> >> now
> >> that they don't, I'm trying to figure out why...
> >>
> >> Here's what I did...
> >>
> >> (1) Took a stock RH9 installation, with kernel updates to 2.4.20-18.9
> >> and
> >> the NVIDIA 43.65 drivers, and...
> >>
> >> (2) Blew away lesstif, openmotif 2.2.14, 2.1.30_8
> >>
> >> (3) Installed the base library packages, and then the base window
> >> manager
> >> package (for some strange reason the xterm dies after the install is
> >> finished...as root, of course)
> >>
> >> (4) Added a Session to my /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions directory with the
> >> title
> >> IndigoMagic, and the script:
> >>
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >> # (c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
> >>
> >> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/mwm
> >>
> >> (5) Logged out, selected session "IndigoMagic" and tried to log back
> >> in
> >> and poof!! nothing.
> >>
> >> Thoughts ???
> >>
> >> sean
> >>
> >> ___________________________________________________________
> >> Sean Spicer
> >> Sr. Development Lead
> >> Magic-Earth, Inc (A Halliburton Company)
> >> www.magic-earth.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
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