How to start Gnome2-lite

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Wed Mar 5 10:29:05 UTC 2008


On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500
"Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:

> notice i typed ~/.xinitrc    not /.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

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