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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:07:47PM +0200, albi@scii.nl wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:07:20 +0200
> Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> wrote:
> 
> > There is a way to start gnome using the 'startx' method but I don't
> > know it.
> 
> echo "gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
> 

	Hm!  I was doing "exec gnome-session"; first I put this
	is ~/.xsession; then ~/.xinitrc.  After several seconds'
	(30 - 45) of thinking about it, wham! back to my root
	screen.  Does ~/.xinitrc need to be 0755?

	gary


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