Re: Gnome - How to install?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:56:37PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Hi.
> First let me make an apology to Nick for clicking my send button to soon.
> Well, I don't have an .xinitrc file. So I looked at the man page for "startx".
> Apparently I'm using the file (xinitrc) in /etc/X11/init. I could see no
> referrence to wmaker in this file. So I tried this "startx gnome-session".
> Sure enough it started gnome. It doesn't look good, but it started.
> I got out of this session ok, but I now have xdm running. Could someone
> tell me how to stop xdm from starting?
> Wayne
> P.S. I'm going to try building my own .xinirc file.
Which version of Debian is it? If it's potato (2.2) then you can make a .xsession file, which will tell X what to start no matter how you start it, whether that be through XDM or startx or whatever... If not you could just apt-get remove xdm like that other guy said... Personally I removed it coz I like the text console...
>
> Nick Jennings wrote:
>
> > edit your .xinitrc (in your home directory)
> > there should be one line containing wmaker or something like that, replace
> > it with:
> >
> > gnome-session
> >
> > then try running X again
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> > > Hi again,
> > > When I installed Debian from the CD I got with
> > > the book I purchase, I selected to install all the
> > > GNOME stuff on the CD. When I "startx" I get
> > > WMAKER. I would like to have GNOME start.
> > > The book doesn't explain how to change
> > > this. Could some kind soul point me to some documentation?
> > > Wayne.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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