From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 10:37:38 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 6E0F3106566B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from siraj.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75378FC27 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from siraj.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so971626rvb.43 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:37:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=b4XWm2DDSKDnQ6Nfd7i6UIXCpoZYvtueH/wgiY/HxG4=; b=YymTS+fU1dmuP8w1egh5LpP6XGyALHvUFfVVkErZypB/h1zgHQvYOU9/BZtDLwlg8Y1kzz8ZNKhXKMTWsULjKE+lZVV3U97OIfPT1KjZAzLJj5/NCpzdvlc3GwGALdm3wDq+AuEEJEJgpSk/Gvxd5SVX+mcdEY39EeN2rCAK80o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mgNdiFRh44F+dX4FlpE1H5b3BUD1u2KTg5791R0V6+jk96ao6ewp/A//8TBE4zYPbnc8p60zhstKCPOgoyAxCsP3cCsXlV8MsmNRhqQEZEkw6pyjX3lBnG+OgZJjIZ0MUfoMC6cSHQmOcOV58nWKEWxS3cgf9zyfN1a2og2MfhU= Received: by 10.140.147.18 with SMTP id u18mr1078587rvd.202.1204713457612; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:37:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.162.17 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:37:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3b2ddd940803050237y7d20bc3w87deb754ec3ab9b9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 +0000 From: "Siraj Shaikh" To: Chris In-Reply-To: <20080305043322.271f6efe@thudpucker.makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: Outback Dingo , 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 10:37:38 -0000 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 wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:31:37 -0500 > "Outback Dingo" 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 wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500 > > > "Outback Dingo" 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 > >