Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:32 p.m. 24/07/01 -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give me the complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much sense to me at this point. ~ is a sort of alias of the username of the current user try cd ~ the same AFAIK

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Adam Bell
Well, 2 things:   A) Your ~/anything is probably /home//anything -- but it depends on how you setup your system.  Just log in and type pwd.  That's ~/   B) You can just type ~/whatever and it will work.  As in "emacs ~/.xsession"   --adam b. - Original Message - From: Alex Th

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: > Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give me the > complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much sense to me at > this point. > > Again Thank You for your help > > Alex ~ is just another n

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Scott Adair
Okey :-) Here we go.. Let's assume that you have a user on the linux system, called alex. What you need to do, is open /home/alex/.xinitrc, and add the line 'gnome-session' to it (without the quotes). When you start x it will look at this file and execute whatever you have in it. If there is no

Re: Another Question regaring X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Alex Thomas wrote: > Thank you for all the help, but as I am a refuge from NT please give > me the complete path as ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc does not make much > sense to me at this point. That _is_ a complete path. The ~ means your personal home directory -- so if your account is "alex", then i