Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:50:30 -0500, John Jolet wrote: I think the more offical way is to uncomment the following lines in /etc/rc.conf: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm XSESSION=Gnome I would disagree. This is how you boot into x. not necessarily how you run x. I personally prefer the

[gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Bob Bao
Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface like boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface I) think the first thing is to configure X (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). THen try startx. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 2:25 PM, Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread brettholcomb
You have to install X and a window manager or app like KDE to get that. From: Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/20 Thu PM 03:25:28 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Install help Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/20/06, Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think suppose I

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Bob Bao wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think suppose I should get a graphic user

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Erik Westenbroek
In /etc/rc.conf: Uncomment #DISPLAYMANAGER=xdm (you do this by removing the # in case you didn't know) If you are using Gnome, change xdm to gdm, and to kdm if you are using kde. Then, do rc-update add xdm default and it should start up at boot. On 4/20/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:11 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Bob Bao wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
echo exec startkde ~/.xinitrc next time you execute 'startx', kde will startup. for GNOME, execute this command first echo exec gnome-session ~/.xinitrc then startx will bring gnome up. I think the more offical way is to uncomment the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:25 -0500, Bob Bao wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think