On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:40AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning > > > problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this > > > several times before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. > > > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" and XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf . I'm out of > > > ideas, but I want gnome back. Can anyone help me? > > > > Startx uses ~/.xinitrc for starting X. You need to change your local > > copy to start gnome rather than twm. > > I'm still using the root account. /root/.xinitrc says "exec > gnome-session", but still startx gives me twm...
is your PATH correct? Maybe you changed something/or something was changed and gnome-session is not in $PATH anymore? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
