Re: Configure and launch

[David Shochat <shochat acm org>]

brian french wrote:

> hey,
>
> i am new to linus, and i already love it, it's great, but i have a  
> question, i installed gnome via redhat, and now i can't figure out how 
> to  launch it. If i type in startx it loads XFree86 and not gnome and 
> i also  was wondering how to configure Xwindows and gnome and if i 
> have to before i  launch it. please help,

For RedHat, runlevel 5 would run gdm on boot-up, (also running X) which 
would give a graphical login screen that should run gnome on login. To 
do that, edit /etc/inittab, changing the line:

id:3:initdefault:
 to
id:5:initdefault:

If you don't want that (i.e. if you want the system to come up in text 
mode), you should be able to get startx to launch (X and) gnome by 
modifying your ~/.xinitrc. If you don't have one, copy 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc. From what you are saying, it may 
end up with something like:

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

Try replacing all that with:

exec gnome-session