Where to find info on remastring Knoppix with Gnome?

[knopx4me]

Does any body know where on the net I can find how to remaster Knoppix to add Ganome.? I have added Gnome to knoopix on hard desk and it worked fine, but when I installed in the chroot environment it did not start. I installed GDM plus 207 other packages but could not start Gnome in the chroot evironment.

Edited:
I tried with gnome failsafe option and was able to lget to gnome. It says that there is some thing wrong with my startup scripts. Does any body know what startup scripts I need to modify? I changed kde in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig to gnome but no change.

[knopx4me]

Ok. It is Xsession45 script causing the problem.

[UnderScore]

There is not much info on GNOME here at Knoppix.net since Knoppix is a primarily a KDE distro. Parsix 0.6 was recently released http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02756#0 and it is a Knoppix based distro that uses GNOME. You should probably ask them as they seem to have got it working.
I wish you success.
James

[knopx4me]

Thanks alot James. I managed to remaster Knoppix with Gnome using your scripts. I just edited 45xsession and knoppix-autocofig to make gnome the default window manager. I managed to get the CD to boot into gnome but when I install it on HD it did not start gnome. It says that it could not start kde because it is not the default window manager. I loged on knoppix account and typed "startx" and started into gnome. I checked knoppix-hd-autoconfig but did not see any thing says it should start kde. Do you have an idea what I should do to make sure the system starts into gnome automatically after HD install?

[knopx4me]

I installe knx-installer 0.3.19.14 from Kanotix and solved the HD installation problem.

Edit:

I found this also:

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Hd_Install_HowTo

[tr]

I managed to remaster Knoppix with Gnome using your scripts. I just edited 45xsession and knoppix-autocofig to make gnome the default window manager. I managed to get the CD to boot into gnome but when I install it on HD it did not start gnome.

Did you succeed to boot Gnome automatically?

I did a new remastering and replaced KDE with Gnome. Everything went fine but my CD boots only into the text mode. In spite of that I can start Gnome by typing:

su - knoppix
startx

But Gnome tries to open previous session (/home/knoppix/.metacity/sessions/some_numbers_and.ms) and starts Gnome very slowly because of that (gives error messages in /home/knoppix/.xsession-errors). Why?

How to get Gnome start automatically? I have choosed GDM session-manager and done modifications in 45xsession and in knoppix-autoconfig and I think they are right.

This Gnome version is very attractive and I'm going to maintain this Finnish version in the future if I get those couple of things settled. Suggestions?

-tapsa-

[Kowood]

there's a knoppix variant called gnoppix i think it's gnome...

[tr]

there's a knoppix variant called gnoppix i think it's gnome...

I donwloaded Gnoppix Linux Live CD but it is based upon Ubuntu. I want to use Knoppix as base.

There's something more wrong in my Gnome remaster. I have installed also enlightenment, afterstep, fcwm95 and blackbox and made modifications in 45xsession. I can boot every window manager by 'su - knoppix' and 'startx' but no one boot directly from CD. Same as with Gnome. Perhaps removing KDE changed something in init process.

-tapsa-

[knopx4me]

tr

Sorry for late reply. Try the following /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession file. It should work:


-----------------------------------------------Cut here ----------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:."
export PATH

umask 022

[ -n "$HOSTNAME" ] || HOSTNAME="$(hostname)"
export HOSTNAME

[ -z "$USER" ] && USER="$(id -nu)"
export USER

[ -z "$HOME" -o "$HOME" = "/" ] && HOME="/home/$USER"
export HOME

# We need to source this so that the login screens get translated
[ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile

# Read default language/keyboard/background image
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/knoppix ] && . /etc/sysconfig/knoppix
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] && . /etc/sysconfig/i18n

if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ]; then
export LC_ALL
fi

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ] && . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

FREESPACE="$(df -k "$HOME" | awk '/^\/|^rootfs/{print $4}')"

startgnome(){
[ -d /KNOPPIX/etc/skel/ ] && rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /KNOPPIX/etc/skel/{.gconf,.gnome2,.mozilla,Desktop,Templates} $HOME/ 2>/dev/null

[ ! -d /KNOPPIX/etc/skel/ ] && rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /etc/skel/{.gconf,.gnome2,.mozilla,Desktop,Templates} $HOME/ 2>/dev/null


GDK_USE_XFT=1 exec gnome-session
}

# Check for sufficient Real Memory for starting KDE or GNOME
# (We don't want to end in a swap-a-lot loop.)
REALMEM="$(awk '/MemTotal/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo)"
FREEMEM="$(awk 'BEGIN{m=0};/MemFree|Cached|SwapFree/{m+=$2};END{print m}' /proc/meminfo)"

startgnome
-----------------------------------------end here---------------------------------------------------------------

Good luck.

[tr]

Try the following /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession file. It should work:

Sorry but it didn't

I can start X manually 'su - knoppix' and 'startx' but not automatically. There must be something more about that.

I have also installed configure-debian and made gdm the default display manger and changed in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf knoppix user to be logged in automatically. So this must be OK.

The problem seems to be starting X server itself. Why is it not started if I use Gnome instead of KDE? This is started from knoppix-autoconfig or am I wrong?


Could someone tell me, what I must change in original 45xsession to copy e.g. .evolution from /etc/skel automatically to /home/knoppix?

rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /etc/skel/{.gnome*,.gtk*,.metacity*,GNUstep,.sawfish,.nautil us,Nautilus} $HOME/ 2>/dev/null
[ "$USER" = "knoppix" ] && rsync -Ha --ignore-existing /usr/share/knoppix/profile/{.gnome*,GNUstep,.sawfish,.nautilus,Nautilus}

-tapsa-