From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 11 18: 6:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c000.snv.cp.net (h002.c000.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6BC837B408 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 3598 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2002 18:06:20 -0700 Received: from 209.228.32.74 (HELO mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net) by smtp.hollar.com (209.228.32.66) with SMTP; 11 Jun 2002 18:06:20 -0700 X-Sent: 12 Jun 2002 01:06:20 GMT Received: from [63.156.128.29] by mail.hollar.com with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: eric@hollar.com Subject: Starting Gnome X-Sent-From: eric@hollar.com Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:06:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Web Mail 5.0.10-12 Message-Id: <20020611180620.12271.h010.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have done a fresh install of 4.5 RELEASE and successfully configured the X server, switched resolutions, played some games in X, etc. I installed Gnome from the package supplied on the installation ISO, and am wondering now how to get it started. From some articles I found on the internet, I found a few instructions. I created a "xinitrc" file in the home directory of my non-root user account. I tried a "gnome-session" line in this file as well as a "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" line and neither one seemed to kick off Gnome after a "startx". Any suggestions? Thanks. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message