Date: 09 May 2002 15:14:41 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: netcruiser@myrealbox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to switch to Gnome + Sawfish? Message-ID: <1020971681.8229.21.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1020971263.630eaff5netcruiser@myrealbox.com> References: <1020971263.630eaff5netcruiser@myrealbox.com>
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On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:07, Manning Luo wrote: > Hi, I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I installed FreeBSD 4.5 and Gnomw + Sawfish. I went to /var/db/pkg, everything seems installed properly, but I don't know how to switch to Gnome. After I reboot my computer, I only see the login, password page. Please help. You can start GNOME in one of two ways. One way is to use gdm (from the ports collection) to act as a display manager to replace xdm. See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x-xdm.html section 5.6.2 and replace xdm with gdm. The second way to do this to use startx. To do this, create a ~/.xinitrc with the following: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session Give this file executable permissions, then type startx. Note, you will need to have the /usr/ports/x11/wrapper port installed if you're using XFree86 4.x, and have the following in ~/.xserverrc: exec Xwrapper :0 Joe > > Thank you very much. > > > Manning Luo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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