Re: Trouble with install

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Saturday, October 14, 2000 22:56 -0700, Tim Hanson <tjhanson home com> 
wrote:
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| Why, when I type in "startx gnome-session" can I get to GNOME only when
| I'm logged in as root?  My permission on that file seems okay.
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"startx gnome-session" runs the regular session (xinitrc) with 
"gnome-session" as an argument; unless your xinitrc knows to look at its 
arguments to select a session, this does precisely nothing.

You're supposed to be able to get around this with a full pathname, but a 
longstanding bug in startx (since 3.3.5 when I reported it to the XFree86 
folks; no response and no fix seen...) makes this not work.

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