[CLUE-Tech] Escape from RH 8.0

[Ed Hill]

Hi Jed,

> Well, I have Sawfish installed. Question is, where in that bloated mess of
> cascading menus and/or that minimalist control panel is the
> button/drop-down/whatever to tell Gnome to use it?
> 
> Is there some "expert-level" switch I need to throw someplace?

Theres a number of ways to start different X "sessions" and heres one
crude but effective method:

  Forgo the graphical login by editing /etc/inittab to default 
  to runlevel 3 and then create an .Xclients file in your home 
  directory that has contents such as:

# begin ".Xclients"
  /usr/bin/gnome-panel >& /dev/null &
  enlightenment
# end ".Xclients"

  where you can substitute the command for sawfish instead of 
  "enlightenment" which I use.


Note that you can see how the environment gets selected at login by
looking at scripts such as /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.


> > Well, you can always switch to Ximian Gnome without much fuss:
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-80-i386
> > 
> > as its RPMs will install cleanly on top of RH 8.0.
> 
> The question being, will it be an improvement? Will it return all the
> "lost" functionality? I mean, I can't seem to even configure the panel,
> except to move it to one edge of the screen or another, and change its
> color. Heck, I can't even change the "Gnome Menu" icon -- there's no
> preference anywhere, or properties panel to do that. And that red hat has
> go to go.

Dunno.  But if you hate Bluecurve, perhaps its worth a try?  Call me a
dinosaur but I like Enlightenment and am sticking with it for a while.


> > Edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
> 
> [ grub.conf ]
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hda5
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
> 
> I don't see a line that adds that boot parameter, otherwise I sure would
> remove it. (No I haven't RTFM yet. I'm still to busy fuming. ;-)


Hmmm.  Well, my /boot/grub/grub.conf looks like this:

#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-24.8.0)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi vga=6
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img

and I have no idea where else the "hd?=ide-scsi" kernel option could be
stashed away.

Ok, gotta get some sleep...
Ed

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