From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 12:15: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (dhcp-64-102-60-48.cisco.com [64.102.60.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AEDF37B400 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g49JEfal009070; Thu, 9 May 2002 15:14:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: How to switch to Gnome + Sawfish? From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: netcruiser@myrealbox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1020971263.630eaff5netcruiser@myrealbox.com> References: <1020971263.630eaff5netcruiser@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.4 Date: 09 May 2002 15:14:41 -0400 Message-Id: <1020971681.8229.21.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:07, Manning Luo wrote: > Hi, I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I installed FreeBSD 4.5 and Gnomw + Sawfish. I went to /var/db/pkg, everything seems installed properly, but I don't know how to switch to Gnome. After I reboot my computer, I only see the login, password page. Please help. You can start GNOME in one of two ways. One way is to use gdm (from the ports collection) to act as a display manager to replace xdm. See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x-xdm.html section 5.6.2 and replace xdm with gdm. The second way to do this to use startx. To do this, create a ~/.xinitrc with the following: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session Give this file executable permissions, then type startx. Note, you will need to have the /usr/ports/x11/wrapper port installed if you're using XFree86 4.x, and have the following in ~/.xserverrc: exec Xwrapper :0 Joe > > Thank you very much. > > > Manning Luo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message