***excellent Chris, many thanks. a proper answer instead of one of those smart-arse rtfm types ! :)
***im sure a lot of us new-to-linuxers ask this very same question, so maybe stick this in the faq somehow. bfn. ----------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:47 -0600, Chris wrote: > Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote: > > > ***hi all, rookie fiddler calling :) > > > > just loaded fbsd5.3amd64 but it stopped at the login prompt. > > > > (1) $>startkde didnt work, is that the right command please ? > > type this: > > echo exec startkde > .xinitrc > > > > > (2) what command to start gnome ? > > type this: > > echo exec gnome-session >> .xinitrc > > > > > (3) how to tell it to start one of the GUI automatically ? > > > The contense of .xinitrc should now look like this: > > exec startkde > exec gnome-session > > Comment out one of the line with # in front of it. So, if you want to > start KDE: > > exec startkde > #exec gnome-session > > > Then, when you type: startx > KDE starts. Do the opposite if you want gnome > > > > > many thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > > unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"