Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

[charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu>]

stan wrote:

> I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new
> kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in
> through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough 
> startx does not (scratches head). IBut start starts a KDE session.
>
> How can I make startx start a Gnome session?

Probably in your ~/.xinitrc you have something like

/usr/bin/startkde


You should comment that out (with a #) and add

/usr/bin/gnome-session


and you should be good to go.  If it's not specified in that file,
perhaps 'man startx' would get you started looking for other choices?

	good luck,
		~c


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