Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:09:11 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Ed Stewart <stewart@mail.bedog1.net>, freebsd list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X startup Message-ID: <200311271209.11711.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <3FC63CDD.4090004@bedog1.net> References: <3FC63CDD.4090004@bedog1.net>
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On Thursday 27 November 2003 12:05 pm, Ed Stewart wrote:
> Hi, I have just finished installing FreeBSD 4.7, everything is working
> fine even X. When I use startx as root Gnome and enlightment loads,but
> when I load on with my username and startx it loads Xterm. My question
> is how do I get Gnome to load instead of xterm? I am new to freebsd and
> am not sure where to look. I tried to find an answer on google,but no
> luck. Thanks for any replies, Ed
Create the file, .xinitrc in the users directory.
In that file add - exec gnomesession
That ought to do it
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Best regards,
Chris
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