On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: | X is currently being started by xdm I believe. | The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any | error messages just not the WM I want. | I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other | message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently | my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'.
echo-ing gnome-session won't do much good. It's almost, but not quite what you need. The command in the directions was $ echo gnome-session >> ~/.xinitrc the result would have gnome-session in your .xinitrc file. Try removing the 'echo' from the command. Also have .xinitrc executable (as someone else already said). You could also try having 'exec gnome-session' in your .xinitrc instead. I would also recommend switching to 'gdm' instead of 'xdm' as gdm is more gnome friendly. I say that because the GNOME people made gdm and it uses gtk like the rest of gnome. HTH, -D
