gnome2 progress

[Richard Pyne]

On 10 May 2005 at 1:14, Steven Michalske wrote:

> On Monday 09 May 2005 1:41 pm, Richard Pyne wrote:
> > Well, the imlib fix worked. The problem now is with gdk-pixbuf.
> > It appears that it can't build unless you are in X, but it also
> > failed when I tried to run the lin from an xterm window in X.
> 
> you need to allow root to connect to your xterm
> 
> as the user running your xsession run xhost +localhost
> this allows all users on your system to connect to your xsession
> 
> then su - and lin gdk-pixbuf

That did the trick for that one, but it raises the question, if 
you are trying to install X with gnome as your only window 
manager, this appears to mean that you are just out of luck 
since you can't install gnome2 without a working window manager.

--Richard