Please help w/gnome

jallen · Guest

I can't get gnome to work yet. I had it defined in USE=, did an emerge with it last night, defined it in xinitrc "gnome &". And still twm comes up when I 'startx.' This afternoon did an emerge xchat. With pretend it didn't list gnome so I figure at least it is installed. What did I miss?

tod · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject:

Hi!

In you user home directory,

echo "gnome-session" > .xinitrc

Then 'startx'

hth

tod

jallen · Guest

Thanks for your help tod. The steps you provided generated a .xintrc file but when I did 'startx,' the command 'gnome-session' is not found. Some where in my travels I came across an option for xdm, gdm, and kdm but haven't been able to find it again. Does anyone know where this is? Thanks.

lodger · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 53

/etc/rc.conf

febisfebi · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 3:39 am Post subject:

your .xinitrc file should look like this

Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

Assuming gnome is actually installed.

Al'Capone · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 4:29 pm Post subject:

nano -w /etc/rc.conf
find the line for the displaymanager to use and uncoment it (remove the # in front of it) and replace the =XDM with =GDM

then save and exit
rc-update add xdm default

re-start your xserver and you are good to go

BTW... all of that IS on the documentation

hope that helped

Cheers
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