gnome-core for DEBIAN
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The gnome-core source package contains the code for the following
programs:

* desktop-properties - for customizing your X desktop, mouse and keyboard
* gnome-terminal - a terminal emulator
* the gnome session manager - this will save the state of Gnome apps when
  you log out, and restart them when you log back in.
* panel - an application launcher / menu / dock
* the help-browser

To use the gnome-session manager with startx or xinit, you need to edit your
.xinitrc file.

The previous maintainers' .xinitrc file looked something like this:

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# This calls our default window-manager
/usr/bin/x-window-manager&
# You can replace the line above by seting a WINDOW_MANAGER environment
# variable to set your preferred WM.
export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish
# This starts up GNOME
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
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Note:  If you don't have gnome-session set up at the end of your
       .xinitrc where it does the "exec" (perhaps your window manager
       is there) - you won't be able to use the session manager to
       handle the logging out process (where it will save the state
       of all your apps).

Another small tip:

Here's the line you probably need in your /etc/fstab for the drive mount
applet:

/dev/fd0                /floppy         auto    noauto,user     0       0

Cheers,

 - Jim

Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:27:43 -0800

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 - James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>