From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 2:54:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kulog.upm.edu.ph (kulog.upm.edu.ph [165.220.24.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C62137B416 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 02:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from kulog.upm.edu.ph [165.220.24.62] (ammag) by kulog.upm.edu.ph with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 166riR-0005uM-00; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:08:23 +0800 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:08:23 +0800 (PHT) From: "Anthony M. Magsino" X-Sender: ammag@kulog.upm.edu.ph To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick, unimportant X question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 add "exec gnome-session" in your .xinitrc file. don't alter any other files. then type "startx" at the prompt. On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message