gnome2 progress

[Jon South]

Auke Kok wrote:
> Richard Pyne wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> alternatively, one can 'startx' as root and never have a problem with 
> this ;^)
> 
> sofar

Why on earth does it even need to do this? I say nuke it.

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