Anyone Using Gnome on YDL 4.0?

[J. De Salvo]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:00, Ron Smith wrote:

> 
> I have a TiBook and a 12" iBook. I have tried installing YDL 4.0 on both
> of them. During the install I select the "custom" packages then I
> uncheck all of the KDE stuff and check the Gnome stuff and continue on
> the install. After all is done, when I boot, I get KDE. Even when I boot
> to level 3 I cannot get Gnome to run from the command line switches for
> startx. 
> 
> Does anyone on this list use Gnome? If so, did you need to do anything
> special to get it working in 4.0?
> 

Hi, Ron--

I am happily using Gnome on YDL 4.0. I installed everything, chose
runlevel 3 as the default startup, created an .xinitrc file in my home
directory with the following line: 

exec gnome-session

When I type startx, the X11 server loads and shortly thereafter so does
Gnome.

HTH,

Joe