Re: How to start Gnome2-lite

Guys

I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it
does show me a box saying "This session is running as a privileged
user" and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working
at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab
or space or alt c working. What to do?

Your help is much appreciated

I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other
purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is
only being used for testing little utilities.

On 05/03/2008, Chris <racerx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:31:37 -0500
"Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

whaaaa

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

sounds like potentially a new user we have no idea what directory he
might be in

silly unix tricks....


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Chris <racerx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500
"Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@xxxxxxxxx> 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


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Chris

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Haha! Good point - I didn't think of that!
Nice catch.


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Chris

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