RE: Gnome and E

[Craig Kelley <ink inconnu isu edu>]

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Paul Huckaby wrote:

> Thanks, I tried this and I'm still getting the same problem. Is that all
> that needs to go in the .xinitrc file? I know it works because I have no
> problems as root, so there is something that I'm missing somewhere. If I
> copy the .xinitrc from root to my new user home directory, whould that work.
> Would there be any potential problems from using the roots .xinitrc file?
> Where is it located?

[snip]

> Paul,
> I had this same problem and I got this answer and it worked for me:
> 
> Create a new file in your home directory called .xinitrc by doing 
> 
>             cat > .xinitrc 
>             PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin 
>             exec gnome-session
>             enlightment

That enlightenment command will never run because the exec on the previous
line replaces that shell fork.  On my system, gnome-session runs E for me
but if you must:

gnome-session&
exec enlightenment