Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:19:05 -0800 From: Roop Nanuwa <roop@hqst.com> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem in starting GNOME Message-ID: <40463DB9.9080202@hqst.com> In-Reply-To: <200403040851.34985.satimis@icare.com.hk> References: <200403040851.34985.satimis@icare.com.hk>
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Stephen Liu wrote: >Hi folks, > >FreeBSD 5.2 >========= > >On multi-user shell ># gnome-session >could not start 'GNOME. > > > You need to start GNOME after you've started X. Go to a command prompt and type: echo 'exec gnome-session' > ~/.xinitrc Then type "startx" to run X & GNOME. >Kindly advise how to make 'GNOME' available for selection on the GUI login >screen. > > > Don't use the ttys. Install the GDM2 port and then look at the startup script under /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d and remove the .sample from the end of the gdm.sh.sample script to get it running. --roop
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