From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 8 16: 4:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (dhcp-64-102-60-50.cisco.com [64.102.60.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A2137B400 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g38N47do094594; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:04:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: (from marcus@localhost) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g38N47Su094593; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:04:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gyros.marcuscom.com: marcus set sender to marcus@marcuscom.com using -f Subject: Re: starting gnome From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: VB Cc: Freebsd-Stable In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-EkTK8gWc6fyPclFQDJlj" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 08 Apr 2002 20:04:06 -0300 Message-Id: <1018307047.319.104.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-EkTK8gWc6fyPclFQDJlj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 20:43, VB wrote: > The Handbook says to start gnome do this: >=20 > "If nothing special has been done to configuration file, then it is enou= gh > to simply type: >=20 > % echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc > Next, type startx, and the GNOME desktop environment will be started." >=20 > This is not working because I don't have "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session". > Are the instructions up to date, or have I done something wrong? I just = did > "pkg_add -r gnome" and it seems to be installed because in > /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session there exists gnomecc and gnome-config, etc. The instructions are a bit out of date. I would say, echo "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc But if you don't have gnome-session, then this won't work either.=20 gnome-session is installed as part of gnomecore. Make sure you have that installed on your machine. To tell you the truth, there are some problems installing GNOME from packages, too. We recommend you build GNOME from an up-to-date ports tree. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq.html#q1 for our recommended GNOME install instructions. Joe >=20 > VanB >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message >=20 --=20 PGP Key: http://www.marucscom.com/pgp.asc --=-EkTK8gWc6fyPclFQDJlj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjyyIeYACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fPigCfTPKfv0kvyoc4HqmbbkvxUNpE ZmgAn0rSmqjD5hduL0U/tlwJL3X5KpJL =bO5S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-EkTK8gWc6fyPclFQDJlj-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message