gnome2 progress

[Auke Kok]

Richard Pyne wrote:

>On 10 May 2005 at 1:14, Steven Michalske wrote:
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>>On Monday 09 May 2005 1:41 pm, Richard Pyne wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>you need to allow root to connect to your xterm
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>>as the user running your xsession run xhost +localhost
>>this allows all users on your system to connect to your xsession
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>>then su - and lin gdk-pixbuf
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>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.
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alternatively, one can 'startx' as root and never have a problem with 
this ;^)

sofar