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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:28:54 -0600
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com>
Cc:        Siraj Shaikh <siraj.shaikh@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
Message-ID:  <20080305042854.12d19f15@thudpucker.makeworld.com>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500
"Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote:

> notice i typed ~/.xinitrc    not /.xinitrc      see the "~"
>=20
>=20
> the ~/ means your home diretcory
>=20
> ie /root if your logged in as root
>=20
> and you typed
>=20
> cd ~/
>=20
> it would cd you into /root
>=20
> if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/
>=20
> it would cd you into /home/siraj ...
>=20
> follow...?
>=20
> so vi ~/.xinitrc

Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist)

echo "exec gnome-session" > .xinitrc

If it does:

echo "exec gnome-session" >> .xinitrc


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Best regards,
Chris

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