Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

stan wrote:

> I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new
> kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in
> through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough 
> startx does not (scratches head). IBut start starts a KDE session.
>
>  
Is it GDM that's crashing, or the wm you're starting when you log into 
GDM? (IOW, it's it crashing before or after you log in?)

> How can I make startx start a Gnome session?
>
>  
Create the file .xinitrc in your home directory (notice the dot); in 
that file put the single line of the wm or de you want to start; here's 
what mine looks like:

westk[@westkent]:/home/westk:> cat .xinitrc
#sawfish &
#icewm
#gnome-session
startkde
#flwm &
#blackbox &
#fvwm95 &
#larswm &
#galeon
#while :; do galeon; done
#fvwm95
#xterm
#gnome-panel &
#twm
#wmaker
#xfwm

I just uncomment whichever one I want to start.

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Kent