startup - sticky to FAQ

[Marshall Kiam-Laine]

***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.

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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, kamanism at ntlworld.com
> >
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