Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:09:51 -0500 From: Brian Jackson <b.k.jackson@verizon.net> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick, unimportant X question Message-ID: <3BFBA79F.6080801@verizon.net> References: <F17MHuovp4CCVLrnFZ000018acd@hotmail.com>
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Hi Charles -
You should have a file called .xinitrc in your home directory
containing the full path to gnome-session:
more .xinitrc
/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session
Then, after you login, you can start X with the startx command
See the startx man page :
NAME
startx - initialize an X session
SYNOPSIS
startx [ [ client ] options ... ] [ -- [ server ] option ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The startx script is a front end to xinit..........
Brian
Charles Burns wrote:
> "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
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