Re: switchdesk

2002-01-16 Thread J Hayward
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 10:22, James Pifer wrote: > Thanks. Found where it was at. > > By the way, is there a way to views those files using the ls command in an > xterm window? It was kind of a pain to figure out what the files were since > 'ls' and 'ls -l' would not list the .Xclients files. I

Re: switchdesk

2002-01-16 Thread J Hayward
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 09:20, James Pifer wrote: > I'm running Redhat 7.1 as a guest OS on VMWare 3.0. > > I was playing with my desktops and from gnome I switched to twm as the > default. Now I can't get back to gnome as the desktop. How do I do this? > > I tri

switchdesk

2002-01-16 Thread James Pifer
I'm running Redhat 7.1 as a guest OS on VMWare 3.0. I was playing with my desktops and from gnome I switched to twm as the default. Now I can't get back to gnome as the desktop. How do I do this? I tried running switchdesk from a terminal window once in twm, and it already s

Switch without switchdesk - SOLVED

2001-12-03 Thread Robert Storey
SuSE > for the past two years. > > Rather than Gnome or KDE, my desktop of choice is > XFCE (it's superfast - if you'd like to try it, > it's on the Redhat Powertools CD). > > My problem - I can't seem to make XFCE the > default desktop. The switchdesk tool do

Re: Switch without switchdesk

2001-12-03 Thread Anthony E. Greene
make XFCE the >default desktop. The switchdesk tool does not >include an option for XFCE. Under SuSE there is >an environment variable called $WINDOWMANAGER, >but I can find no evidence of its existence in >Redhat. I have a good book about Redhat which >says that I can set the default de

Re: Switch without switchdesk

2001-12-03 Thread J Hayward
on the Redhat Powertools CD). > > My problem - I can't seem to make XFCE the > default desktop. The switchdesk tool does not > include an option for XFCE. Under SuSE there is > an environment variable called $WINDOWMANAGER, > but I can find no evidence of its existence in &

RE: Switch without switchdesk

2001-12-03 Thread Ani_Adarsh
hey Robert , You Wrote: My problem - I can't seem to make XFCE the default desktop. The switchdesk tool does not include an option for XFCE. Under SuSE there is an environment variable called $WINDOWMANAGER, but I can find no evidence of its existen

Switch without switchdesk

2001-12-03 Thread Robert Storey
Hi All, I'm new to Redhat, though I've been using SuSE for the past two years. Rather than Gnome or KDE, my desktop of choice is XFCE (it's superfast - if you'd like to try it, it's on the Redhat Powertools CD). My problem - I can't seem to make XFCE the defaul

Re: Relocation Problem (was: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!)

2000-11-15 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > I have kdelibs-devel-2.0-1.i386.rpm installed (on RHL 6.2) with > --relocate /usr=/opt/kde, however, all header files end up in > /opt/kde/include/kde, which breaks all attemps later to compile a KDE > app, as those apps seem to expect the header file

Relocation Problem (was: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!)

2000-11-15 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:31:08PM +0100, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: [...] > > I have RH 7.0, kdesupport 2.0-1, kdebase.2.0-1, kdelibs-2.0.1, > > kdelibs-devel-2.0.1, qt.2.2.1-6,qt-Xt.2.2.1-6,libmng.0.9.2-1 etc. > > You should update the KDE2 packages. The -1 versions have a couple of > known

KDE2 - switchdesk error

2000-11-13 Thread John P. Verel
This is a copy of my recent posting to the KDE List. This would seem clearly to be a Red Hat bug. Just upgraded to KDE2 on my RH7 box. Switchdesk told me KDE was not installed! Fixed this by editing /usr/bin/switchdesk-helper. Find the section toward the end that begins with: case

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Lou Spironello
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 12:31 PM Subject: Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!! > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Lou Spironello wrote: > > > Does KDE2 use the directory /usr/lib/kde2? > > No, The KDE 2.0 preview we included on the 2nd CD of Red Hat Linux 7 &g

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Lou Spironello wrote: > Does KDE2 use the directory /usr/lib/kde2? No, The KDE 2.0 preview we included on the 2nd CD of Red Hat Linux 7 installed itself to /usr/lib/kde2 so it could coexist with KDE 1.x. switchdesk was patched to handle that, that's why switchdes

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Lou Spironello
I found the kicker docs. I'm still puzzled about the /usr/lib/kde2 directory. Lou. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Lou Spironello
What does kicker or kpanel do? Thank you. Lou. - Original Message - From: "Bernhard Rosenkraenzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:14 AM Subject: Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!! > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Lou Spironell

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Joe Simon
All one has to do is edit ~/.Xclients to be #/bin/bash startkde Simple as that. Joe >From: "Leonard den Ottolander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!! >Date:

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I had problems with switchdesk and gdm session selection. See my posting on the KDE list this evening for solutions to both. Both appear to be bugs in RH7 John --- End of forwarded message --- ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Lou Spironello wrote: > However, when I run switdesk KDE2 to switch from gnome to KDE2 i received the > following message. switchdesk hasn't been updated to support the real KDE 2 yet. The KDE2 setting in switchdesk is for the KDE 2.0 preview on the second CD

KDE2 - switchdesk error. Ah!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Lou Spironello
Hello. I've been following the problems with KDE2 installation. I was able to install all of KDE 2.0 plus supporting libaries (i.e. libmng) by uninstalling the old KDE rom RH 6.2 and slowing installing KDE2 insuring that all dependancies where met. I reinstalled switchdesk, switchdesk-gnom

Re: Switchdesk configuration under RH7: More

2000-11-05 Thread John P. Verel
I've fixed part of the problem. In /usr/bin/switchdesk-helper I commented out a lines that were looking for kpanel and kicker as a test of whether KDE was installed. This allows switchdesk, both gui and command mode, to work just fine. Final step is to get the session selection working i

Switchdesk configuration under RH7

2000-11-05 Thread John P. Verel
I've just installed KDE 2.0 and need to fix switchdesk. It is calling the wrong command to start KDE. I get KDE working successfully in a user account by editing /home/user/.Xclients to read exec startkde. The switchdesk menu, however, is not showing the correct choices. Where do I

Can I add things to switchdesk?

2000-08-30 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Switchdesk only has Gnome KDE and AnotherLevel listed, but I have Windowmaker installed, and that's what I want to use. Can I add it to switchdesk? Also, I thought someone said you can do "stratx kde" "startx gnome" and so on, but that doesn't seem to wo