Starting Gnome quickly

kabads · 10-18-2002, 05:20 AM

Is there any way of starting Gnome quickly through the command line - and not through gdm?

I imagine something like startx -gnome would work - is that correct?

acid_kewpie · 10-18-2002, 05:31 AM

create a file called /home/you/.xinitrc and put the line "exec gnome-session" in it.

Thar's a bit of a hardcoded approach to it though. you should be able to set the default desktop when you run switchdesk, which uses a very similar approach using the .Xclients and .Xclients-default files. i just use .xinitrc, less farting around.

kabads · 10-18-2002, 05:59 AM

One problem - I've already got exec fluxbox in .xinitrc

Thymox · 10-18-2002, 08:24 AM

Well, either comment it out, or (download/create) a script that lets you choose which.

acid_kewpie · 10-18-2002, 08:41 AM

you might want to look at Xtart, which is a little script that runs in a console and just give you a choice of which desktop to load, a la gdm...