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>GNOME Installation and Configuration</TITLE
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>Chapter 5. Configuring the X Window System</TD
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NAME="USING-GNOME"
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>5.5. GNOME Installation and Configuration</A
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>The GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) is a windowing
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environment that enhances your X window environment. It is full-featured,
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including a large selection of applications you may find useful.
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However, at the time of this writing, GNOME still has a few minor bugs,
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meaning you may have to put up with errant behaviour at times. However, it
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is fairly stable and definitely usable!</P
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>If you're using Red Hat 6.1, the latest version of GNOME (at least,
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the latest at the time of this writing!) is included with the
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distribution. Otherwise, you will need to download the latest RPM
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distribution of the package. At the time of this writing, the RPM files
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for Red Hat 6.0 i386 systems can be found at <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/RHAD/redhat-6.0/i386/"
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>ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/RHAD/redhat-6.0/i386/</A
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> (or from a
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mirror site).</P
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>Note: </B
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>Note: If you're using Red Hat 6.0, you should be aware that it
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was shipped with a fairly buggy version of GNOME. You should download the
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latest RPM's from the FTP site as described above.</P
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>After you have all the necessary files, the GNOME package can be
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installed with a simple command, typed as <SPAN
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>"root"</SPAN
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>rpm -Uvh gtk*.rpm *.rpm</PRE
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>(The above command ensures the GTK libraries are installed first, to
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avoid dependency errors from occurring).</P
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>Contrary to popular belief, GNOME is actually
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<EM
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>not</EM
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> a Window manager, but instead sits on top of your
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favorite one, providing added functionality to it. Therefore, once you
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have installed GNOME, you should decide which window manager you wish to
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use, and create a ``<TT
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><TT
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>.xinitrc</TT
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file in your directory which loads the appropriate window manager and
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starts GNOME. The file should look something like this:</P
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>afterstep &
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exec gnome-session</PRE
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>The above file will load AfterStep for the window manager, and then
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run GNOME on top of it.</P
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>More information on the GNU Network Object Model Environment can be
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found on the GNOME web page at <A
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HREF="http://www.gnome.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.gnome.org/</A
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>. Don't forget to check out the screen shots,
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located at <A
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.gnome.org/screenshots/</A
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