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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 10 GUI Post 302594585 by midlandmonkey on Tuesday 31st of January 2012 05:32:36 PM
Old 01-31-2012
Solaris 10 GUI
Hello there:-
Firstly, I think its probably a good idea to tell you i'm a bit of a Unix novice coming from the world of Windows but i'm getting there. I've had Ubuntu working at home on VirtualBox with a nice GUI, but i'm having an issue with Solaris 10.

I have at work a Solaris 10 machine which was pre built by someone who is now no longer with us and i'm trying to get a Gnome (JDS) gui up and running to give me a nice GUI to work with. Although I like the command line and can find my way around, I need to install Oracle database client and a few other bits, and i'd prefer the safety of a GUI.

If I login as root, and type:
Code:
root@app2 # gdm
gdm already running. Aborting!

So, if I try:
Code:
root@app2 # gnome-session
(gnome-session:2999): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

If i'm honest i'm a little stuck, and not getting too far.. It's also very possible i've completely got my wires crossed as i've been trying to read up on the old
CDE and JDS..

If anyone could help me out, i'd really appreciate some words of wisdom for a novice!

Thanks,
Gareth
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

gnome-session

GNOME-SESSION(1)					      General Commands Manual						  GNOME-SESSION(1)

NAME

       gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session [--autostart=DIR] [--default-session-key=KEY] [--failsafe|-f] [--debug]

DESCRIPTION

       The  gnome-session  program starts up the GNOME desktop environment.  This command is typically executed by your login manager (either gdm,
       xdm, or from your X startup scripts).  It will load either your saved session, or it will provide a default session for the user as defined
       by the system administrator (or the default GNOME installation on your system).

       The  default  session  is defined in the GConf keys under /desktop/gnome/session.  When saving a session, gnome-session saves the currently
       running applications in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnome-session/saved-session directory.

       gnome-session is an X11R6 session manager.  It can manage GNOME applications as well as any X11R6 SM compliant.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --autostart=DIR
	      Start all applications defined in DIR, instead of starting the applications defined  in  /desktop/gnome/session/default_session,	or
	      via the --default-session-key option. Multiple --autostart options can be passed.

       --default-session-key=KEY
	      Sets  the  GConf key from which applications running a default session should be read to KEY. If not specificed, /desktop/gnome/ses-
	      sion/default_session will be used.

       --failsafe
	      gnome-session will run in fail-safe mode. User-specified applications will not be started.

       --debug
	      Enable debugging code.

ENVIRONMENT

       gnome-session accepts all of the standard environment variables used by gnome programs, other than the  SESSION_MANAGER	environment  vari-
       able.  gnome-session also sets several environment variables for the use of its child processes.

       SESSION_MANAGER

	      This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to contact gnome-session.

       DISPLAY

	      This variable is set to the X display being used by gnome-session. Note that if the --display option is used this might be different
	      from the setting of the environment variable when gnome-session is invoked.

SEE ALSO

       gnome-session-properties(1) gnome-session-save(1) gnome-wm(1)

BUGS

       If you find bugs in the gnome-session program, please report these on http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

								       GNOME							  GNOME-SESSION(1)
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