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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 05:51:34
Message-Id: 6669.1465019481@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm by "J."
1 "J." García <jyo.garcia@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > El vie, 03-06-2016 a las 14:16 -0400, covici@××××××××××.com escribió:
4 > > David Abbott <dabbott@g.o> wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > John I still don't see your ~/.xinitrc when you use startx. 
7 > > > ...
8 > > I don't have the file you are looking for.  My .Xsession-errors is
9 > > quite
10 > > old.
11 > >
12 > ~/.xinitrc you should have written if you are starting X with startx.
13 > It's contents should be something like this if you want to start gnome:
14 > ---
15 > export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
16 > exec dbus-lanuch --exit-with-session \ 
17 > gnome-session --session=${SESSION_NAME} 
18 > ---
19 > Where ${SESSION_NAME} references to one of the files in
20 > /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions, or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnome-
21 > session/sessions , e.g. '--session=gnome', there's more info about this
22 > in the gnome-session(1), and startx(1) manuals.
23 >
24 > I use it as a fall-back way to start an X session with awesome WM. when
25 > gnome isn't working(which hasn't happened in a long time), or I just
26 > don't want to use much RAM, because I need more than 2 VMS.
27 >
28
29 Well, moving xorg.conf out of the way did not produce any different
30 results. It did not effect either starting gdm nor startx.
31
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37 John Covici
38 covici@××××××××××.com