Re: More xinitrc questions
Re: More xinitrc questions
- Subject: Re: More xinitrc questions
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:34:53 +0100
Jerry Fritschle wrote:
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 11:08 AM, Georg Icking-Konert wrote:
(John A. Wolf wrote this, actually)
Any ideas as to what would be different in calling this command from
a terminal or from the xinitrc script? If I replace "exec
/sw/bin/gnome-session" with "exec /sw/bin/icewm" everything runs
fine. Permissions, etc. appear to be the same.
I think your .xinitrc should just read 'exec gnome-session' (without the
path). At least, this is how it worked for me under XDarwin (haven't
tried it with Apple X11).
The fact that John put the whole path there might indicate that he
didn't put "source /sw/bin/init.sh" into his .xinitrc. This would
explain that icewm works and gnome-session doesn't, because ice-wm can
start without a complete set of environment variables, whereas
gnome-session needs to have /sw/bin/ in its PATH environment variable.
The minimal .xinitrc for gnome would be
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec gnome-session
--
Martin
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