From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 00:47:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6052E106566B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:47:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [202.89.146.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E9F8FC13 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:47:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F9082854D; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:47:56 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:47:56 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Siraj Shaikh Message-ID: <20080305004756.GB87943@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <3b2ddd940803041441k6f059619ga1b2987aecd45007@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3b2ddd940803041441k6f059619ga1b2987aecd45007@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to start Gnome2-lite X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:47:58 -0000 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. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.