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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:06:51 -0800
From:      Pat Lathem <plathem@ivestnw.net>
To:        Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@empire.explosive.mail.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What Now? (gnomesession)
Message-ID:  <3E32D23B.8070505@ivestnw.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301250228250.22235-100000@empire.explosive.mail.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301250228250.22235-100000@empire.explosive.mail.net>

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Now you need to do this:

pkg_add -r gnomesession

Then you need to inform X that you want to run this at startup.
In your home directory you want to create a file  ".xinitrc", and put 
"exec gnome-session" in it.

Pat Lathem

Mykroft Holmes IV wrote:

>did a kg_add -r gnome2
>did a pkg_add -r gnome2-fifth-toe
>
>All successfull.
>
>No gnome-session found
>
>How the heck do I start Gnome?
>
>Note, I'm exporting the display to another box (full screen), so I just
>want the command, or a script, as startx only starts X locally. My
>$DISPLAY is set correctly, since KDE works.
>
>Help?
>
>Adam
>
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