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  From: <michaeld@senet.com.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
        Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:49:09 GMT

Re: MS (temporarily) off the hook - laughs on way to bank!

Alan Kennington wrote:

As the local "defender of the faith" I must reiterate that this problem appears 
to be with SuSE and not GNOME.  Never seen such a problem myself.

> The Gnome-doesn't-start-up thing.
[snip]
> Well, it turns out that (at least in SuSE 7.1), if you use the
> C shell (tcsh) as I do, then the gnome path doesn't get
> loaded up correctly into the PATH variable, and the X windows
> just stops with no window manager.
> 
> Isn't that great. Your screen just goes blank if you
> try to run gnome from a console C shell.
> Obviously the distro developers don't run the C shell.

Michael...
-- 
michaeld@senet.com.au
We have enough bugs of our own that you very much :-)


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