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Baumer · Post by **Baumer** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:26 pm

What should be in the default of ~/.xinitrc ?

When I installed Gentoo it had a glitch where it wont load up so I want to goto the X server screen or whatever it is called which was there after I first installed Gentoo I believe.

linerminator · Post by **linerminator** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:51 pm

what wm/de are you using? in case of gnome:

echo "exec gnome-session" > ./xinitrc

how did you configure x?

Baumer · Post by **Baumer** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:33 pm

I want it to just load up X-server because for some reason my Gnome gets stuck on loading the window manager and just goes to a blank screen. I am wondering what it says on default that loads up the X window system.

Dlareh · Post by **Dlareh** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:36 pm

`startx' by default will start twm and some other nice apps

`X' will just start the X server -- you'll have to CTRL+ALT+F{1...7} to a terminal and

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export DISPLAY=:0.0
xterm

abzs2k · Post by **abzs2k** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:47 pm

Baumer wrote:I want it to just load up X-server because for some reason my Gnome gets stuck on loading the window manager and just goes to a blank screen. I am wondering what it says on default that loads up the X window system.

You can probably delete or rename the ~/.xinitrc file and then startx. By default the ~/.xinitrc file does not exist. I should then start a very crude looking window manager with a couple of terminals.

Baumer · Post by **Baumer** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:52 pm

Thank you, it's back to working again.

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:37 pm

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.