on Wednesday 02/21/2007 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, John covici wrote:
> > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I
> > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there
> > something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so
> > gnome does not run or am I doing something wrong here?
>
> No-one can answer that question for you easily, as you haven't supplied
> any information at all beyond that you use startx. It's always a good
> idea on a mailing list to supply all relevant data up front
>
> At a minimum we would at least need to know what's in your ~/.xinitrc
>
> To start gnome, it should contain (usually as the last line):
>
> exec gnome-session
OK, but I had none of that -- I had just installed gnome and all its
packages, so I had no idea that I needed that file -- I figured the
default one would start gnome, if I had gnome installed.
But I have since found an rc.conf variable which takes care of things.
--
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How do
you spend it?
John Covici
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