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acrodaniel

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Registered: 2014-04-10

Posts: 8

slim do not start gnome-session --session=gnome-classic

i allways used gdm but i wanted to try something more easy and customizeable
so i changed to slim and want to load the gnome classic mode after login

i put this commandline in my ~/.xinitrc file
but it just allways loads the normal gnome mode

exec gnome-session --session=gnome-classic

any ideas why i do not start the normal mode?
thank you

shulamy

Member

From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 456

Re: slim do not start gnome-session --session=gnome-classic

i think there is no more gnome-classic, at least for slim.

i change the normal gnome to classic with the shell extentions.

ezik

acrodaniel

Member

Registered: 2014-04-10

Posts: 8

Re: slim do not start gnome-session --session=gnome-classic

okay cool this sounds like an idea

i installed the extention

where can i find the classic theme?

thank you

Chazza

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: slim do not start gnome-session --session=gnome-classic

I think shulamy misunderstood you. GNOME Classic is a session for for GNOME which uses extensions to create a GNOME 2 like interface. To start the GNOME Classic session, the line in your .xinitrc file needs to be this:

exec env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=classic gnome-session --session gnome-classic

I'll update the GNOME wiki page accordingly.

Last edited by Chazza (2014-05-23 19:57:28)