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