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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



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