On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:38:16AM +1100 or thereabouts, DBW wrote: > mike, > > >The command you need is startx (if you have gdm running you need startx > >-- :1) > > Thanks for the reply. > If I do that then it simply ends up in the Twm environment. I have lost the start of this thread. So I can't remember what OS or distro this is. And I can't remember whether this was covered. But startx looks at various files in your home directory to decide what to run. If they're not there, it uses defaults. I think distros may vary in what file they use for this. On my Fedora box, the file is ~/.Xclients. If you strip all the comments out of that, the contents of that file are two lines: #!/bin/sh gnome-session That starts Gnome for me. Have you a file called this with something similar in it? Is there an .xerrors or .Xerrors (I forget which) file with anything useful? You can append things like "2 > my-error-file" to the end of the startx command to collect all the errors it meets into a file, if not. Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
