From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 07:53:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D5616A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 07:53:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DBE043D53 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 07:53:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carnaily@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 19254 invoked by uid 417); 8 Jun 2004 07:52:59 -0000 Received: from charleston-.softhome.net (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.2.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 8 Jun 2004 07:52:59 -0000 Received: from Smartster ([81.1.195.2]) (AUTH: LOGIN carnaily@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:52:58 -0600 To: "n3rdBoy ." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Message-ID: From: Andreas Carnaily Organization: Stanbury Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:53:06 -0000 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera7.23/FreeBSD M2 build 518 X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.38 Subject: Re: gnome problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:53:12 -0000 Try to move /root/.xinitrc to /home/you/ It should work. ;) On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:40:05 +0000, n3rdBoy . wrote: > Hello to you all, > I am new to freeBSD and this mailing list. I have run > into some problems and am not sure where to post my question. I am > running FreeBSD 5.2 i386 and am having some problems getting gnome to > work. I have searched through the handbook and several other text books > but am still stuck. > When I am logged in as root X11 and gnome start fine when I > type 'startx', when I am logged in as a normal user I type 'startx' and > only X11 starts. I have followed the instructions in the handbook and > modified /root/.xsession. any help or direction to other resources would > be great. > > Thanks > > Brett > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get a Credit Card - 60 sec online response: > http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/clk;8097459;9106288;b?http://www.anz.com/aus/promo/qantas5000ninemsn > [AU only] > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/