Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:05:38 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Joann Hoblitz <jhoblitz@erols.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnome Message-ID: <19990919150538.O3566@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <37E3824E.D928144F@erols.com> References: <37E3824E.D928144F@erols.com>
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* Joann Hoblitz (jhoblitz@erols.com) [990918 17:38]: >I have freebsd 3.2 and have installed gnome but it seems that the only >way to get any of running I have to use a xterm. Now I may doing it >Wrong but after looking at the .xinitrc it said > gnome-session & > afterstep > now I do not usually use >afterstep and I have never set it up this way before; of course that is >probably because I am oringally from the Linux world. I have to say >other wise this is the most stable OS I have ever used. thanks for your >help. I am not quite able to parse the problem in this mail. Are you saying gnome-session only works when you start it from a xterm? Have you tried removing or commenting out the afterstep line and startx again? Also, have you checked the FAQ's at www.gnome.org to see what else gnome needs in .xinitrc for it to start correctly? HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Haste makes waste. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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