Gnome on Slack

Wed · 10-21-2005, 07:57 PM

I really want to use Gnome on my Slackware install.

I already read all the reasons for not including it from 10.2 and henceforth, so please don't reiterate.

However, I tried the automated compile, but the space on my disk is just not sufficient enough to complete it.

Is there any chance that someone out there have binaries I can use? And Evolution with it?

rkelsen · 10-21-2005, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wed
Is there any chance that someone out there have binaries I can use? And Evolution with it?

Do a Google search for "Freerock Gnome" or "Gware". Both of these have Pat's blessing. Alternatively, you can try "Dropline Gnome", which also installs PAM and does a few other things Pat doesn't like.

liquidtenmilion · 10-21-2005, 08:43 PM

Droplinegnome.org

Download the installer on their page and run dropline-installer and do a full install.

Wed · 10-21-2005, 09:07 PM

Thanks for the replies!

I did read Patrick's notes on the drop of Gnome about the projects Gware and Freerock.

Gware however is one I don't feel comfortable getting entangled with. My mileage hasn't varied all that much since my beginning with Linux ... And it requires kernel 2.6, that will come, but not just yet.

Freerock was the promising one until it told me, "not enough space left on /var".

So there seems to be an opening for dropline. But 1Gig required ...

Would somebody please explain about the badness of PAM and other things?

Wed · 10-21-2005, 10:30 PM

Well, it didn't help having 1,2 Gigs free on /usr, when /var ran out during download.

So Dropline suffers the same fate as Freerock

rkelsen · 10-22-2005, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wed
So Dropline suffers the same fate as Freerock

I don't know about dropline, but you can download freerock to wherever you like via ftp from:

ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/norlug/frg/

Its about 300 megs.

liquidtenmilion · 10-22-2005, 08:23 AM

Once you install it however it will take up 1.2 gigs just like dropline.

It's a gnome thing.

Wed · 10-24-2005, 10:33 AM

Well, Gnome installed successfully, after a repartitioning and system reinstall.

But! How do I start Gnome?

I tried issuing the command:
gnome-session but to no avail.

At best I get the error:
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

addendum
Ok, so I can start gnome once in fluxbox but that just seems wrong to me. And loads of things report as warnings or errors in the console.

liquidtenmilion · 10-24-2005, 10:41 AM

you can do xwmconfig and choose gnome(most good gnome distributions will put an entry there)

If not, my .xinitrc looks like this

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# This nag screen isn't going to save anybody.
export NAUTILUS_OK_TO_RUN_AS_ROOT=1

# Start the window manager:
exec gnome-session

Namaseit · 10-25-2005, 12:12 AM

or a good old 'startx -e <command>'

I use this all the time to run games with no WM.

Wed · 10-25-2005, 02:09 AM

Thanks a lot. The command worked and I got Gnome started.

A lot of things were broken though and it was far beyond me to fix it.

Solution: Slackware 10.1

Problem, not entirely solved, but worked around.