RE: install and activate!
Polashek, Matthew (Matthew.Polashek@scottforesman.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:28:30 -0500
Awesome! That's a really cool option! Thanks!
Matthew Polashek
Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music
Scott Foresman/Pearson Education
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Matthew.Polashek@scottforesman.com
> ----------
> From: Bob McClure Jr
> Reply To: as-users@afterstep.org
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:11 PM
> To: as-users@afterstep.org
> Subject: Re: install and activate!
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:11:26PM -0500, Polashek, Matthew wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I have a redhat system that I want to install Afterstep. I assume
> > I'll have to remove the GTK thing somehow right? (I have to try to lean
> how
> > these GUIs are structured and how they relate to X) any help would be
> > greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Matt
>
> Graydon offered a useful solution. If you would like AS integrated
> into the switchdesk arrangement, this offering from Mark Thorp Duxbury
> (email addy on request) is something I found useful.
>
> ----------- snip -----------
> Greetings,
>
> Here is how to do it so that Afterstep shows up in the login menu on
> Redhat
> (i.e. how Redhat does session selection at login):
>
> (0) The following assumes that you are using gdm and not kdm or xdm (gdm
> is
> the default, so if you haven't changed anyting this will work; if you are
> using a different display manager let me know and I'll post instructions
> for
> the others - they're all different).
>
> (1) Create a file in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions called "Afterstep" (warning, I
> can't remember for sure that this is where this directory was in RH 7.3,
> but
> I'm almost completely sure - I don't think they moved it between 7.3 and
> 8.0.
> If /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions doesn't exist, type "locate gdm/Sessions" and put
>
> the Afterstep file there - the most likely alternative location would be
> /etc/gdm/Sessions.) Put the following lines in the "Afterstep" file:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession afterstep
>
> (2) Now create a file in /usr/share/apps/switchdesk called
> "Xclients.afterstep". (again if there is no /usr/share/apps/switchdesk
> directory try "locate apps/switchdesk" - but I'm 99% sure it's in the
> location I've indicated in RH 7.3). Put the following in that file:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep > ~/.Afterstep-errors 2>&1
>
> (3) Restart gdm. Afterstep should be in the list of sessions to choose
> from.
> Choose it and log in, you should get Afterstep. If for some reason this
> doesn't work please let me know, I don't think I've forgotten anyting
> but...
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mark
> ----------- snip -----------
>
> (Mark is now saying, "Aaaaaacccckkkk! The advice that will not die.")
>
> Thanks, anyway, Mark.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> robertmcclure@earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com
> If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
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