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could someone please point me towards a more easily understood tutorial on xinitrc than the howto? i read the howto and the man page and still couldn't figure out how ...
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- 09-12-2003 #1Linux Engineer
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could someone please point me towards a more easily understood tutorial on xinitrc than the howto? i read the howto and the man page and still couldn't figure out how to write an ~/.xinitrc file that would serve my purpose...
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What do you want to do?
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well, my first goal is to get X to run Gnome w/o having to start GDM every time (i don't want an X server running all of the time) and then i would like to know how to modify it after that to bend it to my will as i install more software and get more stuff working...
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To keep X from starting automatically: edit your /etc/rc.conf and comment out the line DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm. Then set XSESSION=gnome.
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- 09-13-2003 #5Linux Engineer
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that was simple enough... if i had thought to check there, i would have found a large comment section explaining that exact env var..... so many things to learn.. so many new ways to acquire a headache..
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Originally Posted by lordnothing
the best way I've found is to start beating your head on your desk out of frustration... in hopes you'll pass out and things will magiclay work when you come-to
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there've been times that i've wanted to do that.. like now.. i emerged kde and now i can't find *any* of the binaries in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/X11R6/bin, /bin, or /sbin... any ideas where in the world my kde went??? (i spent two days compiling it and don't want to think that i have to go through that again...)
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To start kde you can just use startx, after you set the XSESSION=kde in your xinitrc.
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once again, the answer is so simple it is overlooked... thanks, sarumont
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Btw, KDE gets in /opt. If I recall correctly that is
You could do a "whereis startkde" to find out where the binary is, aslong as the binary is in your PATH.
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