getting gnome to come up when issueing a startx

[soleblazer]

Greetings,

Finally got the xserver up. I want to use gnome. After I install the appropriate rpm, how do I get startx to bring up gnome? Do I put a file in my home directory or something?

Tks

-sole

[vee-eye]

switchdesk gnome

gnome can be replaced by other window managers as well. You could also edit the ~/.Xclients-default (located in the home directory, as the ~/ implies), so it will say this:

exec /usr/bin/gnome-session

All switchdesk does is edit .Xclients-default as shown above.

peez ;)

[ 30 October 2001: Message edited by: vee-eye ]

[linuxluis]

What you need to do is change your level to start up in gnome heres the file you need to change is


/etc/inittab

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault: this is the field you have to change to 5

hope that help you out. bu tyou have to be root to do the edit


Bishop

:cool:

[thor420]

I've always found it to work by editing .xinitrc in your home directory to contain "exec gnome-session" as the final line. Hope that helps you out.

[soleblazer]

thanks all! It worked!