From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 12 9:22:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.pandromeda.com (able.pandromeda.com [209.15.181.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAFF337B40C for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 56931 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2002 16:21:44 -0000 Received: from sa5399-101-27.stic.net (HELO wallace) (julian@216.198.60.74) by smtp.pandromeda.com with SMTP; 12 Jun 2002 16:21:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Julian Peterson To: eric@hollar.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting Gnome Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:20:18 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20020611180620.12271.h010.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net> In-Reply-To: <20020611180620.12271.h010.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200206121120.18609.weaver@earthcorp.com> 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 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