[theory]

I just wanted to say that after 9 hours
of downloading and after many failed
attempts to install gnome without using
fink, I have finnaly got it to work and work
well.

Next stop KDE 3 probably.

Just one problem though sound is not
working. Is that normal ?

-- Actually don't worry about the sound
I fixed it --

[JB72]

Screenies?

[Moonray]

Congrats.

How about telling the largest problems you ran into and how you solved them?

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[theory]

Well the largest problem I faced was the following

- Since I didn't have the internet at home
till last week I couldn't use fink so I got
the source code compiled it (it was not
funny ). and got it to kind of work
(every thing was crashing and --no_xshm
was not on by default)

Last week I got the internet and installed gnome using fink (very easy). The main
problem was that gnome-session would
first look in the /usr/X11R6/bin before
/sw/bin when running anything (ie it was
running my old version of gnome)

Deleting gnome that I installed made the one
I got using fink work.

- The second thing was getting X11 to
use gnome-session at startup. Before
I installed X11 I had an .xinitrc and when
I first ran X11 I told it not to use it.

Since there was no option to tell X11 to use
.xinitrc after you told it not to I deleted it's
prefrences it asked me again and I told it use
my newly created .xintrc and it worked

the .xintrc was simply

PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin/
export PATH

exec gnome-session

[theory]

A screen shot can be found at

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~hshafez/gnomescreen2.jpeg

The program in the foreground is texmac,
a WYISWYG tex/latex editor (got it through
fink also)

[Moonray]

Thank you.

I don't use Fink cause I don't like the trouble it causes sometimes to have things not in their standard location.

Now texmacs is something I'd like to try myself... I remember I had problems with lyx once .. maybe I'll give this a try

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[JB72]

Good work theory. And thanks for the screenie!

semi-OT: Gentoo released some PPC "live CDs". One KDE3 and one Gnome2. Pretty nifty.

[theory]

Originally posted by Moonray:
Thank you.

I don't use Fink cause I don't like the trouble it causes sometimes to have things not in their standard location.
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I think when installing fink you can tell it
to use /usr/local instead of /sw/ (it is some
where on the faq)

Trust me though installing it with fink is
whooooole lot easier

[Moonray]

Originally posted by theory:
I think when installing fink you can tell it
to use /usr/local instead of /sw/ (it is some
where on the faq)

Trust me though installing it with fink is
whooooole lot easier

Yes, but less fun

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