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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:11 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: |
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> Bob Bao wrote: |
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> > Hi. |
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> > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo |
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> > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the |
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> > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session |
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> > window. I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface like boot |
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> Hi Bob and welcome to Gentoo, |
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> Which graphic desktop you have installed? If its plain X server |
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> (i.e., xorg-x11) then you'll get a very basic desktop, which you |
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> obviously dont want. If you installed kde, then probaby you've not |
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> modified your .xinitrc file. Execute this command from from console, |
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> echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc |
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> next time you execute 'startx', kde will startup. |
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> for GNOME, execute this command first |
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> echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc |
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> then startx will bring gnome up. |
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I think the more "offical" way is to uncomment the following lines |
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in /etc/rc.conf: |
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DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" |
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XSESSION="Gnome" |
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