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From: Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:05:10
Message-Id: 200702211829.21654.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome? by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 18:36:59 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:19, John covici wrote:
3 > > Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even
4 > > there -- the line was commented out in the file.
5 >
6 > That sets a systemwide default. As others suggested, the file ~/.xinitrc
7 > might be used to choose on a per-user basis the X session to run (it has
8 > to be created by each user who wants it).
9
10 Actually, GDM uses Xsessions and startx uses xinitrc files.
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12 If you look at the /etc/X11/xinitrc file, it looks for and uses the ~/.xinitrc
13 file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default
14 of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses the variable XSESSION.
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16 If neither of the methods works, it starts a twm session.
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18 Correct me if I'm wrong please.
19
20 HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome? Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>