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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:10:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Mike Stacy <mstacy@angstrom.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: GNOME
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Mike Stacy wrote:

> I just finished installing GNOME on my FreeBSD box, then when I startx
> everything is the same.....I followed the handbook, and also typed this in
> "echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc" how can I make GNOME come
> up or make it come up........
>

If you use startx to get X going, adding the following to ~/.xinitrc will
work:

#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session

Make sure you chmod +x this file to get it working.

If you're like me, and you use gdm, then I recommend you create a startup
script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d called xserver.sh:

#!/bin/sh

PREFIX=/usr/X11R6

case "$1" in

start)
    ${PREFIX}/bin/gdm
    ;;
stop)
    /usr/bin/killall gdm 2>/dev/null
    ;;
*)
    echo "$0 start | stop"
    ;;

esac

Yes, you can also modify /etc/ttys to accomplish the same thing, but I
prefer this method.

Joe


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