Re: GNOME won't start with startx

[Georg Koss <g.koss@nextra.at>]

Hi Will,

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:16:22AM -0400, Will Cicola wrote:

> Before, 'startx' would load up a nice GNOME desktop for me; now that
> command simply loads the "grey screen with x cursor" without seeming
> to actually load anything GNOME-related. (ps confirms this.) How can
> I fix my setup so that 'startx' will load GNOME once more? (I did
> try it as another user, and that didn't work either, so I think it 
> must be a global thing.

For me

  gnome-session

in ~/.xsession does the job in the manner you seemingly wish. 
In so far it's global as you need it in every users .xsession. ;-))

HTH

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M.f.G.

Georg Koss

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