Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mark Cox <coxhome@×××××××××××××.au>
To: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] problem with the Desktop configuration guide
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:20:58
Message-Id: 1026170840.4243.11.camel@mango
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] problem with the Desktop configuration guide by Grant Goodyear
1 On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 06:00, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > > All I would like to suggest that in the Desktop Config guide you all have
3 > > posted that in between code listings 4 and 5 that you make it clear that you
4 > > need to issue the reboot command otherwise you will not be able to run startx.
5 > > It doesnt mention that anywhere and to a person who is coming from a Distro
6 > > where every thing X is done for you then it is not quite clear.
7 >
8 > I've _never_ had to reboot to run startx. It may not be in your path
9 > (I should change the docs to use the full path for startx, just
10 > in case), but just source /etc/profile.
11 >
12 > -g2boojum-
13 >
14
15 This is the one thing I love about linux, the only thing you need to
16 reboot for is a new kernel.

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