Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 05:45:36 +0200 (CEST) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome start up Message-ID: <20030511053045.D6066@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101513450.20983-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101513450.20983-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>
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On Sat, 10 May 2003, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > Hi, after many hours I finally installed X on FreeBSD -stable. > I did install the gnome2 metaport and When I start up X gnome desktop > doesnt apper. > > What do i have to do do set up gnome2 as my default desktop enviroment? I assume you can start XFree86's default window manager twm with # startx Search your system for a file called xinitrc by # locate xinitrc (It might be somewhere in /etc/X11R6/ or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/ ) Save the original file by renaming it, p. ex. # mv xinitrc xinitrc.old Then create a new xinitrc file containing the line gnome-session and # startx > Where Can i get information about gnom2 post install on freebsd? www.freebsd.org/gnome and www.gnome.org Regards, Uli. > > regards, > > --- > Fabio Andres Miranda > Ingenieria de sistemas informaticos > Universidad Latina - Costa Rica > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+
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