From owner-freebsd-gnome Tue Feb 4 7: 9:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B0E37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu (mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu [160.94.128.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E621B43F3F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wythe001@umn.edu) Received: from challenge.software.umn.edu (challenge.software.umn.edu [128.101.103.127]) by mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:09:12 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by challenge.software.umn.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h14EmoH02993; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:48:50 -0600 Message-Id: <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:48:50 CST From: Kirk R Wythers Subject: Re: gnome2 install on 5.0 Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, marcus@marcuscom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Tick-Nemesis: American Maid X-remote-user-ip: 128.101.74.61 X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] challenge.software.umn.edu #+LO+TR Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 1) does gnome2 just need me to create a .xinitrc file with 'exec >> gnome-session' in it to start? or am I missing something else? >Yep, assuming you start X using startx. Make sure ~/.xinitrc is executable. ~/.xinitrc is executable with 744. I can start gnome2 as root (yes I have wrapper installed)... but if I start try and start gnome2 as a regular user (either startx or xinit), I get the error: **ERROR**: I Can't write to /tmp/orbit-kwythers, ORB failed aborting... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message