Originally Posted by qole

Works fine, nice and snappy (in my chroot partition, probably not so fast from the image file), does tap-and-hold right-click, and very gnome-looking

All I needed to do was make a new copy of /usr/share/applications/hildon/debwm.desktop (I called it gnome.desktop), change the appropriate lines in my new file, and, in my chroot, copy xpice to xpgnome, then change IceWM to Gnome and icewm-session to gnome-session, and it just worked.

I had to hack hal to get it to install (put "exit 0" as the first line of /var/lib/dpkg/info/hal.preinst and /var/lib/dpkg/info/hal.postinst then run "apt-get -f install" to finish getting everything installed), and there was some sort of error about a daemon not being started when I first ran gnome-session, but it started up and seemed to be fine after that.

My biggest complaint so far is that all the settings dialogs are huge, they go way off the bottom of the screen, and I can't move the window up past the top of the screen to read the bottom of the dialog!

Originally Posted by Maxoueb

Hi Qole!
Would it be possible for you to make a (little bit more detailed) step-by-step guide for installing/running Gnome as you did? (ie. easy debian running from partition)

Thanks in advance!

Max

Originally Posted by BrentDC

This worked for me (just breaking down qole's instructions a bit)...

This assumes you have the easy-debian package installed and already have debian installed in an ext2/3 partition.


After you run 'sudo debian' in the terminal:

Code:

apt-get install gnome-core gdm gnome-media gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-tools gnome-volume-manager gnome-utils gnome-app-install

Then duplicate /debian/usr/bin/xpice and call it something like xpgnome. Change the 4th and 5th lines in that file to:

Code:

export WMNAME="GNOME"
export WMEXEC="gnome-session"

Then duplicate /usr/share/applications/hildon/debwm.desktop and call it gnome.desktop .

Change the Exec line in that file to:

Code:

Exec=/usr/bin/hostwin GNOME 'sudo debian xpgnome'

And you're good to go!

A few notes: You may need to 'hack hal' to get gnome to install (I did). Refer to qole's instructions on how... If you don't have debian on a ext partition yet, you can download: http://qole.maemobox.org/debian-chro...040608.tar.bz2 and untar it on your ext partition. Also, don't forget to change /hom/user/.chroot to point to your new ext partition.