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allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Running gnome services without gnome

Does anyone here use some of the gnome services without running Gnome?

I would like to get the gnome screensaver and USB autodetection (when I plugin a thumb drive, it should mount and open up rox) to work but I haven't had much luck so far.

acetylcholine

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From: NY, USA

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 46

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Re: Running gnome services without gnome

check out the wiki for hal and dbus
they handle it for gnome

easy solution: if youre using xfce then switch to gnome, its faster

z3ppelin

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Registered: 2006-07-10

Posts: 171

Re: Running gnome services without gnome

When I was running openbox only, I was starting it throu startx, and I had in my ~/.xinitrc something like:

gnome-volume-manager ;
gnome-settings-daemon ;
exec openbox ;

gnome-volume-manager is autodetecitng usb and cd's, but you need to have d-bus and hal started.

djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Running gnome services without gnome

When I was running openbox only, I was starting it throu startx, and I had in my ~/.xinitrc something like:

gnome-volume-manager ;
gnome-settings-daemon ;
exec openbox ;

gnome-volume-manager is autodetecitng usb and cd's, but you need to have d-bus and hal started.

You could easily just have all that in your executable ~/.xsession as well. Either work equally well.

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