"J." García <[email protected]> wrote:
> El vie, 03-06-2016 a las 14:16 -0400, [email protected] escribió:
> > David Abbott <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > John I still don't see your ~/.xinitrc when you use startx.
> > > ...
> > I don't have the file you are looking for. My .Xsession-errors is
> > quite
> > old.
> >
> ~/.xinitrc you should have written if you are starting X with startx.
> It's contents should be something like this if you want to start gnome:
> ---
> export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
> exec dbus-lanuch --exit-with-session \
> gnome-session --session=${SESSION_NAME}
> ---
> Where ${SESSION_NAME} references to one of the files in
> /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions, or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnome-
> session/sessions , e.g. '--session=gnome', there's more info about this
> in the gnome-session(1), and startx(1) manuals.
>
> I use it as a fall-back way to start an X session with awesome WM. when
> gnome isn't working(which hasn't happened in a long time), or I just
> don't want to use much RAM, because I need more than 2 VMS.
>
Well, moving xorg.conf out of the way did not produce any different
results. It did not effect either starting gdm nor startx.
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