Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:20:18 -0500 From: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com> To: eric@hollar.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting Gnome Message-ID: <200206121120.18609.weaver@earthcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20020611180620.12271.h010.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net> References: <20020611180620.12271.h010.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 8:06 pm, eric@hollar.com wrote: > 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. > The file you want to the startup commands into is ".xinitrc" (there's a=20 leading period) Julian. --=20 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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