Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

[John covici]

on Wednesday 02/21/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu(shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org) wrote
 > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:02, 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?
 > 
 > I think that's what XSESSION in /etc/rc.con is for. At least, in my 
 > system I see that 'startx' honors that setting.

Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even
there -- the line was commented out in the file.

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