Re: Starting X/Gnome
Hi HawkY,
under /root or your home directory create a file called .xinitrc (be careful!
there's a dot before the 'x') and put in it simply:
gnome-session
In so doing, when you issue startx a gnome session will be run. This is a
powerful way of customizing your desktop.
For instance I have a user for which I put the following two lines in .xinitrc:
./office52/./soffice
icewm
When I run startx a Star Office 5.2 session is started.
Another important file to customize your X window is .xsession which is called
by xdm.
Vittorio
On Mon, 04 Jun 2001, HawkY wrote:
> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:04:27 +0200
> To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> From: HawkY <hawky@freemail.hu>
> Subject: Starting X/Gnome
>
> Hi!
>
> Where can I define what I want to launch at startup? (I don't want X to be
> started at startup.)
>
> I've installed Gnome, but I want to launch it. (I might be wrong. I don't
> really know much about X.)
> When X is started, I get a login prompt. (Big white window with large black
> letters.) If I enter the data, it launches WMaker. Is it Gnome?
> (I'd like to install Ximian Gnome but when I try to launch Red Carpet I get
> a message:
> "GTK error: Error opening display" or something.) Is it beaceuse X is still
> running? (When I press ctrl+alt+f7.)
>
> Thanx!
>
> HawkY
>
>
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