porting rhgb to other distros

[IvanK.]

Hi guys,

first I want to congratulate everyone involved in fedora core on a very 
aesthetically pleasing and technically superb desktop.  Excellent job.

Now, I'm a LFS (linux from scratch) user and I would like to "port" rhgb to 
lfs.  I already succeeded in compiling rhgb, after modifying some the 
variables in main.c, and changed my initscripts to start it.

However, when I rhgb is supposed to start, it does but dies immediatelly and 
my boot continues as normal.

I tried running rhgb with -d, but I get no information.

My question is, do I need to patch either the kernel or anything else?

A new thing just occured to me and it is that I'm running a font server on my 
machine.  Perhaps when rhgb starts it cannot find the necessary fonts?  I'll 
give it another try, but would also be grateful for any hints you can 
provide.

Thanks,
IvanK.