Re: Grey screen of death?

[Alexander Jolk <jolk ap-pc513b physik uni-karlsruhe de>]

David Christensen <dchristensen@westman.wave.ca> writes:

> When I fire up X (using startx, with the line 'exec gnome-sessions'
> in the .xinitrc, as per instructions), I end up staring at the X
> startup screen (grey, with the X cursor).... and it never finishes
> loading.  Removing the line from .xinitrc, X starts up fine, into my
> old WM.

You should definitely use `exec gnome-session' in your .xinitrc, and
not `gnome-sessions' as you typed.  If this was a typo in your
message, I'm afraid I can't help, though...

Alex

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