From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 5: 9:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop3pub.verizon.net (smtppop3pub.gte.net [206.46.170.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A4437B417 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:09:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from verizon.net (pool-64-223-149-190.man.east.verizon.net [64.223.149.190]) by smtppop3pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id HAA62682475 Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:09:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3BFBA79F.6080801@verizon.net> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:09:51 -0500 From: Brian Jackson Reply-To: b.k.jackson@verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick, unimportant X question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Charles - You should have a file called .xinitrc in your home directory containing the full path to gnome-session: more .xinitrc /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session Then, after you login, you can start X with the startx command See the startx man page : NAME startx - initialize an X session SYNOPSIS startx [ [ client ] options ... ] [ -- [ server ] option ... ] DESCRIPTION The startx script is a front end to xinit.......... Brian Charles Burns wrote: > "XFree86" seems to execute /just/ X, the server, but not Gnome. > According to the handbook, it should run X with Gnome if I altrer > .xinitrc appropriately. I did and put on in /root and one in > /etc/X11/xinit (or something like that) and it seems to completely > ignore the entry. > > Running "xinit", however, runs Gnove fine. Now, X is working great so > not problem here, but, why? I just happenned to try 'xinit' as a > command for the heck of it. I don't understand the whole way X works > yet. The only GUI that I have used for years is... Well, you know... > > Charles Burns -- b.k.jackson@verizon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message