install-gnome
command:
This will install the GNOME desktop onto your RH 5.2 system. Now you will need to edit the way X11 comes up on your system. This is usually done with a .xinitrc, .xsession, or a .Xclients file in your home directory. Determine which of these is being run on your computer before proceeding. If you have just installed RH 5.2 and none of these files exist in your home directory (try 'ls -a' in your home directory), you can just create a .xinitrc from scratch../install-gnome
In this example we will be using fvwm2 as the window manager, but you can use any window manager with GNOME. To use the panel most effectively, you might want to disable any taskbar your window manager creates. To make this easy to do with fvwm, there is a .fvwm2rc file included with this distribution called 'fvwm2rv.gnome'. Copy this file into your home directory with the name '.fvwm2rc.gnome' to use it.
Now edit the file which your system uses to startup X apps. Make these lines appear at the end of the file:
panel & background-properties --init & keyboard-properties --init & mouse-properties --init & fvwm2 -f .fvwm2rc.gnome
You will want to make sure that no other window managers, desktops, etc get started before these final lines of the file, or it will most likely not work.
Now start X11 on your box and GNOME should start up, with a panel at the bottom of the screen. You should now read the 'Introduction To GNOME' docuement to learn more about GNOME.
NOTE: Be sure you logout of the panel first, and then exit the window manager. You have to do things this way so the panel can save state information about itself. In the future you will not be required to logout and exit the window manager separately. If you feel bold, you can run the window manager in the background, and run the panel last. If you do this when you logout of the panel everything will shutdown.
Also, you can check the GNOME website at www.gnome.org for more information...
The wmconfig2desktop.pl script on the CDROM will convert all the wmconfig entries used by AnotherLevel into desktop entries which the GNOME project will be using. To run the script just cd to the directory containing the wmconfig2desktop.pl script, change to user root, and type
./wmconfig2desktopThis was done as part of the gnome-install script, and only needs to be done when new RPMS are installed which insert new wmconfig entries.
Several GNOME packages were not released in this snapshot that were in previous snapshots:
As these packages are updated in the near future, there will be announcements on http://www.gnome.org.
If any of these packages are installed, they could interfer with the proper installation of this new snapshot. If you have trouble installing this new snapshot, try removing these packages and trying again.