From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 22:39: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC5737B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:38:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from corten5.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA03121; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:38:32 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:44:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten5.billschoolcraft.com To: Beech Rintoul Cc: MaVeN2600@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: help volume II In-Reply-To: <01012119072401.00389@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Message-ID: System-ID: FreeBSD 4.2-REALEASE #0: i386 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sun, 21 Jan 2001 it looks like Beech Rintoul composed: akbeec-> akbeec->On Sunday 21 January 2001 18:54, MaVeN2600@aol.com wrote: akbeec->> Even dummer question, where would initrc be. i just ran fin / -name akbeec->> ..initrc -print and i couldn't find it.. akbeec-> akbeec-> akbeec->There should be a dotfile named .xinitrc in your home directory, or /root akbeec->directory if you're user root. It should only only contain the line: akbeec->exec startkde akbeec-> akbeec->If you don't find it create it. akbeec-> akbeec->Beech This one liner has always worked for me. echo `which kde` > ~/.xinitrc and to go back to gnome echo `which gnome-session` > ~/.xinitrc __ Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message