Fail to start KDE and Gnome

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Armin,

Tks for your advice.


--- Armin Pirkovitsch <a.pirko at inode.at> wrote:

> Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan Chen,
> > 
> > Tks for your advice.
> > 
> >  
> >> If you're going to use "startx" you will need a ${HOME}/.xinitrc
> with
> >> the following contents:
> >>
> >> 	#/bin/sh
> >> 	startkde
> >>
> >> Make sure the file is 755 permissions. This will start up X with
> KDE.
> >> I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of
> >> using "startx"
> > 
> > Your advice worked here starting KDE.
> > 
> > What I'm trying to do is running;
> > 
> > $ startkde
> > will start K desktop
> > 
> > $ gnome-session
> > will start Gnome desktop
> 
> This won't work since those are just the windowmanagers - you need an
> X
> server to start them.
> However you could solve it with some small scripts:
> 
> 
> start-gnome.sh:
> ----------------
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -f ~/.xinitrc
> ln -s ~/.xinitrc_gnome ~/.xinitrc
> startx
> 
> ----------------
> ################
> .xinitrc_gnome:
> ----------------
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session
> 
> ----------------
> ################
> start-kde.sh:
> ----------------
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -f ~/.xinitrc
> ln -s ~/.xinitrc_kde ~/.xinitrc
> startx
> 
> ----------------
> ################
> .xinitrc_gnome:
> ----------------
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> 
> ----------------
> 
> make sure all of these files are executable (chmod 755 <file>)
> the .xinitrc* files have to be in your home directory -
> start-gnome.sh
> and start-kde.sh in any directory in your PATH (eg. ~/bin if it's
> only
> for one user)


Something strange happened here.  If copying "xorg.conf.new" on
/etc/X11/ and renaming it as "xorg.conf". I can't start X, the HD only
turning.  Now I don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  I can start KDE (not
Gnome).  I don't know which "xorg.conf" I am now running.

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