From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Jan 25 10: 7: 7 2003
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE43537B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:07:05 -0800 (PST)
Received: from list-svr.nventure.com (list-svr.nventure.com [208.186.46.9])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F02243F5F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:07:05 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from plathem@ivestnw.net)
Received: from ivestnw.net ([208.187.12.239]) by list-svr.nventure.com
          (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-67609U1600L200S0V35)
          with ESMTP id com; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:19:28 -0800
Message-ID: <3E32D23B.8070505@ivestnw.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:06:51 -0800
From: Pat Lathem <plathem@ivestnw.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030120
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@empire.explosive.mail.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What Now? (gnomesession)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301250228250.22235-100000@empire.explosive.mail.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301250228250.22235-100000@empire.explosive.mail.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Now you need to do this:

pkg_add -r gnomesession

Then you need to inform X that you want to run this at startup.
In your home directory you want to create a file  ".xinitrc", and put 
"exec gnome-session" in it.

Pat Lathem

Mykroft Holmes IV wrote:

>did a kg_add -r gnome2
>did a pkg_add -r gnome2-fifth-toe
>
>All successfull.
>
>No gnome-session found
>
>How the heck do I start Gnome?
>
>Note, I'm exporting the display to another box (full screen), so I just
>want the command, or a script, as startx only starts X locally. My
>$DISPLAY is set correctly, since KDE works.
>
>Help?
>
>Adam
>
>
>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
>
>  
>


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message