From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 20:58:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f17.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8079137B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:58:32 -0800 Received: from 24.116.158.21 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 04:58:32 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.116.158.21] From: "Charles Burns" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Quick, unimportant X question Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:58:32 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Nov 2001 04:58:32.0350 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B0C73E0:01C17249] 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 "XFree86" seems to execute /just/ X, the server, but not Gnome. According to the handbook, it should run X with Gnome if I altrer .xinitrc appropriately. I did and put on in /root and one in /etc/X11/xinit (or something like that) and it seems to completely ignore the entry. Running "xinit", however, runs Gnove fine. Now, X is working great so not problem here, but, why? I just happenned to try 'xinit' as a command for the heck of it. I don't understand the whole way X works yet. The only GUI that I have used for years is... Well, you know... Charles Burns _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message