Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:47:56 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Siraj Shaikh <siraj.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to start Gnome2-lite Message-ID: <20080305004756.GB87943@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3b2ddd940803041441k6f059619ga1b2987aecd45007@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b2ddd940803041441k6f059619ga1b2987aecd45007@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:47PM +0000, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> I installed Gnome2-lite as a package. I then inserted the following line
>
> gnome_enable="YES"
>
> in rc.conf
>
> and also inserted the line
>
> exec gnome-session
>
> in the xinitrc file. | type startx after this, but gnome desktop
> doesnt load up. Instead the usual x windows screen loads up.
The "gnome-session" line needs to be in ${HOME}/.xinitrc, which also
needs to have permissions 700 at least.
Cheers.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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