Re: How do I enable Gnome environment?
On Sun Nov 19 13:56:32 2000 Colin Watson wrote...
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>"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca> wrote:
>>On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>>> OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples
>>> help on this list explaining the use of anXious. Nice tool BTW.
>>>
>>> Now, how do I get Gnome to start up when I log in to the xdm
>>> session? Or do I need to replace xdm with gdm?
>>
>> Nope. gdm's nicer, but xdm is fine. Just fire up gnome in your
>>.xsessions file.
>>
>> ie. echo "exec gnome-session" > $HOME/.xsession
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>Eek. 'echo "exec gnome-session" >> $HOME/.xsession' (note >>), surely?
Turns out, that at least after =my_ install, there was on .xsession file, so
his advice would have worked fine for me.
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originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
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