refresher gentoo stuff
 

Hi

Back at the gentoo machine again... couple questions:
1) whats the default text editor installed that i can use in the cli ?

2) after installing alsa 1.04 and doing an etc-update running startx after logging onto cli doesn't run gdm or the window manager (gnome 2.4) i did have running before... i can get into my gnome fine if i use a gdm command...

Thanks for your time and patience!

1) nano

2) echo "exec gnome-session" >> ~/.xinitrc

1) In am pretty sure the default text editor with gentoo is nano.

2) Create (or edit) your /home/username/.xinitrc file to read:

And it should fire up when you do a "startx". I am not too sure though because I don't use Gnome. "exec fluxbox" works fine as does "exec kde"...

nano - duh- how stupid.. heh

I want to go into cli at boot and then have to run startx manually... xinitrc will that change my runleve at boot?

Im not so sure that it changes your runlevel, ~/.xinitrc simply tells X which window manager to fire up when you type "startx".

So like you want: start in cli, then type startx and you are good to go...btw John5788's suggestion of "exec gnome-session" is probably correct as I don't use gnome.