I went back and checked I have all the Gnome components installed..looks like I do.. My feeling is that there's something I need to change in Gconf-editor to make the gnome-menu items appear and see programs in the applications menu, but I can't find it.. Any ideas ? Thanks, Iain Iain Kerr wrote: > I recently installed Gnome 2.14.0 via fink under Mac OSX (Tiger). I've > used gnome for many years under various Linux distros. My .xinitrc > looks like this: > > # $Id: xinitrc,v 1.3 2004/06/11 04:37:23 jharper Exp $ > userresources=$HOME/.Xresources > usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap > sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources > sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap > > # merge in defaults and keymaps > > if [ -f "$sysresources" ]; then > xrdb -merge "$sysresources" > fi > > if [ -f "$sysmodmap" ]; then > xmodmap "$sysmodmap" > fi > > if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then > xrdb -merge "$userresources" > fi > > if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then > xmodmap "$usermodmap" > fi > > # start the window manager > quartz-wm --only-proxy & > metacity & > > #start GNOME > source /sw/bin/init.sh > exec /sw/bin/gnome-session > > > I'm not sure how to integrate applications into the gnome desktop > environment eg. I have gedit and gnome terminal in /sw/bin (fink put > them there), they open fine from a Mac terminal but how do I integrate > them into "Applications" in the top menu bar.....also I notice when I > double-click on eg. a word document on gnome I get the message: > > "couldn't display /Users/Iain/blah.doc"....is it possible to integrate > eg. pre-installed MS Office, Thunderbird, Firefox into Gnome ? > > Help on this and any other suggestions in making Gnome more integrated > under MacOSX would be greatly appreciated ! > > Thanks in advance ! > Iain > > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
