On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:56:09PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:46:50PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
Dear All,
I decided to have a play with Gnome (usually an FVWM user.) I managed to get a nice user-friendly desktop by doing
ln -s /home/username /home/username/Desktop/username
and creating a .xsession file that said
#!/usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/gnome-panel & /usr/bin/gnome-wm
But when the session's finished with, hitting the "Log out" option in the system menu only seems to close the gnome-panel, not actually to end the X session. I suspect that this is because I'm starting gnome-panel the "wrong" way. Any ideas, please?
Not directly connected with your problem but I run gnome-panel on my fvwm window manager. I just run it on an 'as needed' basis when I can't remember how to do something and I use the gnome-panel menus to find what I need.
Re: your problem, are you running X from startx? It may well be that gnome is expecting to be run from gdm but I'm not sure.
When I get home I can check to see if gnome-panel's log out works for me.
In fact I can try it here, but will have to send this first.
byeeeee.............
Well, not quite, running the gnome-panel logout doesn't log out here at work either. My diagnosis was correct I think, what I see on the terminal window where I invoked gnome-panel is:-
chrisg$ gnome-panel ** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name ** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
** (gnome-panel:6116): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: No such file or directory
** (gnome-panel:6116): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: No such file or directory chrisg$
So gnome-panel was trying to talk to GDM to close down. (Those power manager errors appear when gnome-panel starts up)