Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:29:24 -0500 From: "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to start Gnome2-lite Message-ID: <5635aa0d0803050229h4501acf5qda6a6aaaa078fd30@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080305042532.72122115@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> <20080305042532.72122115@thudpucker.makeworld.com>
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and ill agree here with chris, it is an extremely bad practice to run X as root, you should always login as a user.... if you need to do maintenance or something you can always use su or sudo On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:19:34 +0000 > "Siraj Shaikh" <siraj.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 05/03/2008, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote: > > > vi `/.xinitrc > > > > > > paste > > > > > > exec gnome-session > > > > > > then :wq > > > > > > save the file, and startx > > > > > is that /.xinitrc ? or in my home directory, /root/.xinitrc ? > > In your home dir. Unless you are using the root account as your default > (and that's just bad practice). > > -- > Best regards, > Chris > > Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 >
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