Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 +0000 From: "Siraj Shaikh" <siraj.shaikh@gmail.com> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to start Gnome2-lite Message-ID: <3b2ddd940803050237y7d20bc3w87deb754ec3ab9b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080305043322.271f6efe@thudpucker.makeworld.com> References: <3b2ddd940803041441k6f059619ga1b2987aecd45007@mail.gmail.com> <20080305004756.GB87943@osiris.chen.org.nz> <3b2ddd940803050207x51cd64edh81b03870112fd3ad@mail.gmail.com> <5635aa0d0803050210y3323dda2s82205890872f22e1@mail.gmail.com> <3b2ddd940803050219o546ce777k556abc69a413fe84@mail.gmail.com> <5635aa0d0803050223v41277e95l3426849cbfe290b@mail.gmail.com> <20080305042854.12d19f15@thudpucker.makeworld.com> <5635aa0d0803050231r693a2928x910ecb35e7f2287@mail.gmail.com> <20080305043322.271f6efe@thudpucker.makeworld.com>
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Guys I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it does show me a box saying "This session is running as a privileged user" and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab or space or alt c working. What to do? Your help is much appreciated I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is only being used for testing little utilities. On 05/03/2008, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:31:37 -0500 > "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote: > > > whaaaa > > > > echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc > > > > sounds like potentially a new user we have no idea what directory he > > might be in > > > > silly unix tricks.... > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500 > > > "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > notice i typed ~/.xinitrc not /.xinitrc see the "~" > > > > > > > > > > > > the ~/ means your home diretcory > > > > > > > > ie /root if your logged in as root > > > > > > > > and you typed > > > > > > > > cd ~/ > > > > > > > > it would cd you into /root > > > > > > > > if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/ > > > > > > > > it would cd you into /home/siraj ... > > > > > > > > follow...? > > > > > > > > so vi ~/.xinitrc > > > > > > Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist) > > > > > > echo "exec gnome-session" > .xinitrc > > > > > > If it does: > > > > > > echo "exec gnome-session" >> .xinitrc > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > Chris > > > > > > Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 > > > Haha! Good point - I didn't think of that! > Nice catch. > > > -- > Best regards, > Chris > > Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 > >
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