Re: startup - sticky to FAQ
From: Marshall Kiam-Laine (kamanism_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 02/08/05
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To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:12:32 +0000
***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@ntlworld.com
> >
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