gnome2 progress

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:26:56AM -0600, 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.
> 

AFAIK gdk-pixbuf is for gnome/gtk 1.x. Why is it installed for gnome2?