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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:39:48AM +0000, Josh S wrote: |
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> Hey everyone, |
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> when I load up gentoo it loads up a basic console login and when I try to |
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> startx it loads up a really basic X interface with two terminals and a |
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> analog looking clock. When I try to use xfce-session it loads up xfce but |
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> things are out of place and it looks more like a basic X session. |
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It sounds like you're getting a TWM session. More savvy (and helpful) |
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list members would point you to a helpful wiki page or something, but |
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there are a couple of ways to do what you need. Which is the 'official' |
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way or the gentoo-sanctioned way I don't quite know. |
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First you can have an ~/.xinitrc or an ~/.xsession file which are |
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semantically equivalent. Here's a sample ~/.xsession (or ~/.xinitrc) |
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# load XFCE |
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xfce & |
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You can also modify your /etc/rc.conf file: |
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XSESSION="xfce" |
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Another way to select which Xsession to run is to define the XSESSION |
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enviornment variable in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile |
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export XSESION=xfce |
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Justin |
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