From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 0:16:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC9F37B401 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14SEA1-000JWB-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:16:37 +0000 To: "Matthew Brice" , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: getting gnome working. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:16:37 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have recently downloaded and installed FreeBSD for the first time. I > have used Linux for the last year or so, and am somewhat familiar with > working in Unix-like environments, but am certainly no where near being > a guru. > > My problem is this: after doing the initial, basic install which > included the X server - with the basic twm window manager - I decided to > download and install Gnome. But my question now is what configuration > files do I need to add/modify to get gnome running when I type "startx"? > Or is there a better way? Any suggestions or comments would be helpful > and appreciated. You coudl try putting the following in ~/.xinitrc exec gnome-session Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message