Re: No place to input when starting Gnome

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On 10/6/05, Terrence van Ettinger <terrence@terrencevak.net> wrote:
> Hello, all,
>         I'm trying to set gnome up on my computer, and am having
> problems with it.  When I start up, I get the login screen.  I log in,
>         and then all I get is what looks like a window full of log data,
>         and no mouse capability (though I *did* get that on *one*
>         attempt).  I have the following .xinitrc file in the home
>         directory of the user that I log in with:
>  ======================================================================
> #!/bin/sh
> xrdb -load .Xdefaults
>  emacspeak &
> exec gnome-session
>  ======================================================================
>         Am I still missing something?

Assuming you have all the needed packages installed, i would advise to
use ~/.xsession instead of .xinitrc, and you probably don't need the
"exec" statement before the "gnome-session" command, or better, the
culprit is the "exec" statement...


Andrea