Date: 04 Feb 2003 14:47:06 -0600 From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnome2 install on 5.0 Message-ID: <1044391626.2408.6.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <1044383810.323.2.camel@gyros> References: <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu> <1044383810.323.2.camel@gyros>
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On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:36, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:48, Kirk R Wythers wrote: > > >> 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... > > Try deleting any orbit* directories in /tmp, and try again. > Seems that /tmp was not writable for usrers (dono how that happened). Any ways... I reset the permissions for /tmp and all is cool... > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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