Changing default desktop manager

[Flashman]

(Red Hat 7.0) I've just upgraded to Xf86 4.0.2 to get my intel 820i working.
It's all gone smoothly, except that I'm now booting to a command prompt, and startx plonks me into twm, not Gnome as before. I can start Gnome with 'gnome-session', but it's still got the twm widgets and so on - it's very ugly and ain't right or proper.

My /etc/X11/xinitrc has a line 'twm &', which I've tried changing to 'gnome-session &' with no effect. Any ideas anyone? Do I need to reinstall Gnome?

[Lonely Cat]

vi ~/.xinitrc

add one line inside,
gnome-session &

that's all.

[Flashman]

It didn't like that at all - doing a 'startx' tried to start X and dumped me back to the command with a load of errors. the weird thing was, it was a command prompt with a mouse cursor. Weird.
I think I'l reinstall Gnome tomorrow.

[Dagda]

try
switchdesk gnome
at the cl

[RTFM]

do this:

echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc


That will create a .xinitrc file that will start up GNOME. Shouldn't have to do anything else.

[Flashman]

Lovely - thanks very much.

Originally posted by tminos:
<STRONG>do this:

echo "exec gnome-session" &gt; ~/.xinitrc


That will create a .xinitrc file that will start up GNOME. Shouldn't have to do anything else.</STRONG>

[trekker]

Hey! I had the exact same problem after I upgraded Xfree86!! An dI spend days trying to work it out!!

To think that the solution was so simple!! :mad: :mad:

Anyway, I did a fresh install of RH7.1 and sorta gotten rid of the porblem.. heh heh :D