Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
vi `/.xinitrc
paste
exec gnome-session
then :wq
save the file, and startx
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:47PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
I installed Gnome2-lite as a package. I then inserted the following
line
gnome_enable=YES
in rc.conf
and also inserted the line
exec gnome-session
in the xinitrc file. | type startx after this, but gnome desktop
doesnt load up. Instead the usual x windows screen loads up.
The gnome-session line needs to be in ${HOME}/.xinitrc, which also
needs to have permissions 700 at least.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity
-- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
SO if I log in as root, which I do, then this means that file will be
in /root/ directory? But I cant find any .xinitrc file in root
directory? WHat do I do?
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Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On 05/03/2008, Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
vi `/.xinitrc
paste
exec gnome-session
then :wq
save the file, and startx
is that /.xinitrc ? or in my home directory, /root/.xinitrc ?
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:47PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
I installed Gnome2-lite as a package. I then inserted the following
line
gnome_enable=YES
in rc.conf
and also inserted the line
exec gnome-session
in the xinitrc file. | type startx after this, but gnome desktop
doesnt load up. Instead the usual x windows screen loads up.
The gnome-session line needs to be in ${HOME}/.xinitrc, which also
needs to have permissions 700 at least.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity
-- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
SO if I log in as root, which I do, then this means that file will be
in /root/ directory? But I cant find any .xinitrc file in root
directory? WHat do I do?
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Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
notice i typed ~/.xinitrcnot /.xinitrc see the ~
the ~/ means your home diretcory
ie /root if your logged in as root
and you typed
cd ~/
it would cd you into /root
if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/
it would cd you into /home/siraj ...
follow...?
so vi ~/.xinitrc
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
vi `/.xinitrc
paste
exec gnome-session
then :wq
save the file, and startx
is that /.xinitrc ? or in my home directory, /root/.xinitrc ?
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:47PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
I installed Gnome2-lite as a package. I then inserted the
following
line
gnome_enable=YES
in rc.conf
and also inserted the line
exec gnome-session
in the xinitrc file. | type startx after this, but gnome desktop
doesnt load up. Instead the usual x windows screen loads up.
The gnome-session line needs to be in ${HOME}/.xinitrc, which also
needs to have permissions 700 at least.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity
-- the rest is overhead for the operating
system.
SO if I log in as root, which I do, then this means that file will be
in /root/ directory? But I cant find any .xinitrc file in root
directory? WHat do I do?
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Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:19:34 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/03/2008, Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vi `/.xinitrc paste exec gnome-session then :wq save the file, and startx is that /.xinitrc ? or in my home directory, /root/.xinitrc ? In your home dir. Unless you are using the root account as your default (and that's just bad practice). -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500 Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: notice i typed ~/.xinitrcnot /.xinitrc see the ~ the ~/ means your home diretcory ie /root if your logged in as root and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /root if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /home/siraj ... follow...? so vi ~/.xinitrc Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist) echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc If it does: echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
and ill agree here with chris, it is an extremely bad practice to run X as root, you should always login as a user if you need to do maintenance or something you can always use su or sudo On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:19:34 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/03/2008, Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vi `/.xinitrc paste exec gnome-session then :wq save the file, and startx is that /.xinitrc ? or in my home directory, /root/.xinitrc ? In your home dir. Unless you are using the root account as your default (and that's just bad practice). -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
wh echo exec gnome-session ~/.xinitrc sounds like potentially a new user we have no idea what directory he might be in silly unix tricks On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500 Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: notice i typed ~/.xinitrcnot /.xinitrc see the ~ the ~/ means your home diretcory ie /root if your logged in as root and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /root if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /home/siraj ... follow...? so vi ~/.xinitrc Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist) echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc If it does: echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On 05/03/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:47PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
I installed Gnome2-lite as a package. I then inserted the following line
gnome_enable=YES
in rc.conf
and also inserted the line
exec gnome-session
in the xinitrc file. | type startx after this, but gnome desktop
doesnt load up. Instead the usual x windows screen loads up.
The gnome-session line needs to be in ${HOME}/.xinitrc, which also
needs to have permissions 700 at least.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity
-- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
SO if I log in as root, which I do, then this means that file will be
in /root/ directory? But I cant find any .xinitrc file in root
directory? WHat do I do?
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Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:31:37 -0500 Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wh echo exec gnome-session ~/.xinitrc sounds like potentially a new user we have no idea what directory he might be in silly unix tricks On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500 Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: notice i typed ~/.xinitrcnot /.xinitrc see the ~ the ~/ means your home diretcory ie /root if your logged in as root and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /root if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /home/siraj ... follow...? so vi ~/.xinitrc Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist) echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc If it does: echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 Haha! Good point - I didn't think of that! Nice catch. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
Guys I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it does show me a box saying This session is running as a privileged user and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab or space or alt c working. What to do? Your help is much appreciated I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is only being used for testing little utilities. On 05/03/2008, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:31:37 -0500 Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wh echo exec gnome-session ~/.xinitrc sounds like potentially a new user we have no idea what directory he might be in silly unix tricks On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500 Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: notice i typed ~/.xinitrcnot /.xinitrc see the ~ the ~/ means your home diretcory ie /root if your logged in as root and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /root if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/ it would cd you into /home/siraj ... follow...? so vi ~/.xinitrc Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist) echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc If it does: echo exec gnome-session .xinitrc -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 Haha! Good point - I didn't think of that! Nice catch. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it does show me a box saying This session is running as a privileged user and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab or space or alt c working. What to do? Your help is much appreciated I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is only being used for testing little utilities. Welp - As to you running as root (you know my position) that is absolutely your call mate. A really quick fix (for the mouse) is call up sysinstall and go to Configure, then Mouse. Choose Number 3 (Type) then config from there OR go right to Number 2 (Enable) Once you have the rodent configed via sysinstall, that ought to plop the needed lines in /etc/rc.conf (your mileage may vary, standard disclaimers apply). This is just one way of trying it - you could run the Xorg config utils, or if you are brave, edit the Xorg conf file by hand. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
I have the usbd_enable line in rc.conf the mouse is working on the black screen but it doesnt work when the x loads up On 05/03/2008, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it does show me a box saying This session is running as a privileged user and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab or space or alt c working. What to do? Your help is much appreciated I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is only being used for testing little utilities. Welp - As to you running as root (you know my position) that is absolutely your call mate. A really quick fix (for the mouse) is call up sysinstall and go to Configure, then Mouse. Choose Number 3 (Type) then config from there OR go right to Number 2 (Enable) Once you have the rodent configed via sysinstall, that ought to plop the needed lines in /etc/rc.conf (your mileage may vary, standard disclaimers apply). This is just one way of trying it - you could run the Xorg config utils, or if you are brave, edit the Xorg conf file by hand. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On 05/03/2008, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it does show me a box saying This session is running as a privileged user and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab or space or alt c working. What to do? Your help is much appreciated I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is only being used for testing little utilities. Welp - As to you running as root (you know my position) that is absolutely your call mate. A really quick fix (for the mouse) is call up sysinstall and go to Configure, then Mouse. Choose Number 3 (Type) then config from there OR go right to Number 2 (Enable) Once you have the rodent configed via sysinstall, that ought to plop the needed lines in /etc/rc.conf (your mileage may vary, standard disclaimers apply). This is just one way of trying it - you could run the Xorg config utils, or if you are brave, edit the Xorg conf file by hand. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:48:33 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the usbd_enable line in rc.conf the mouse is working on the black screen but it doesnt work when the x loads up Ah good. You're off to a decent start. At this point I would have a look at one of the 2 Xorg config apps (they escape me off hand - but I'm sure one of the fine list folks will lend that to you). OR - edit the Xorg conf file by hand - if you are a newb, then I strongly suggest the Xorg conf utils (Here again, unless one of the fine folks can paste to you what the approximate lines out to be). Here I can't help much, my FBSD boxen are all Non-X. Anyways, I'm out for a few hours - good luck mate. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
X -configure should fix you up X -config /root/xorg/root/xorg.conf.test cp /root/xorg.conf.test /etc/X!!xorg.conf startx On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/03/2008, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:37:37 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it does show me a box saying This session is running as a privileged user and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab or space or alt c working. What to do? Your help is much appreciated I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is only being used for testing little utilities. Welp - As to you running as root (you know my position) that is absolutely your call mate. A really quick fix (for the mouse) is call up sysinstall and go to Configure, then Mouse. Choose Number 3 (Type) then config from there OR go right to Number 2 (Enable) Once you have the rodent configed via sysinstall, that ought to plop the needed lines in /etc/rc.conf (your mileage may vary, standard disclaimers apply). This is just one way of trying it - you could run the Xorg config utils, or if you are brave, edit the Xorg conf file by hand. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:48:33 + Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the usbd_enable line in rc.conf the mouse is working on the black screen but it doesnt work when the x loads up Ah good. You're off to a decent start. At this point I would have a look at one of the 2 Xorg config apps (they escape me off hand - but I'm sure one of the fine list folks will lend that to you). OR - edit the Xorg conf file by hand - if you are a newb, then I strongly suggest the Xorg conf utils (Here again, unless one of the fine folks can paste to you what the approximate lines out to be). Here I can't help much, my FBSD boxen are all Non-X. Anyways, I'm out for a few hours - good luck mate. -- Best regards, Chris Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start Gnome2-lite
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:41:47PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
I installed Gnome2-lite as a package. I then inserted the following line
gnome_enable=YES
in rc.conf
and also inserted the line
exec gnome-session
in the xinitrc file. | type startx after this, but gnome desktop
doesnt load up. Instead the usual x windows screen loads up.
The gnome-session line needs to be in ${HOME}/.xinitrc, which also
needs to have permissions 700 at least.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: How to start gnome2?
Put this line in your .xinitrc exec gnome-session Cheers, Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ronnie Clark Sent: 18 October 2002 13:53 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: How to start gnome2? I just finished compiling gnome2 from the ports. But now how do I start? I added the line exec gnome to my .xsession and .xinitrc files, typed in startx, and got an error saying, could not find gnome. Is there a different syntax? Thanks in advance, Ronnie Clark __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
