On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:56:32PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:56:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> OK, I seem to have manged to get X configured thanks to peoples > >> help on this list explaining the use of anXious. Nice tool BTW. > >> > >> Now, how do I get Gnome to start up when I log in to the xdm > >> session? Or do I need to replace xdm with gdm? > > > > Nope. gdm's nicer, but xdm is fine. Just fire up gnome in your > >.xsessions file. > > > > ie. echo "exec gnome-session" > $HOME/.xsession > > Eek. 'echo "exec gnome-session" >> $HOME/.xsession' (note >>), surely?
Not of there's an exec already in the file, hence the > . Granted, if he wants say, xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults above it, then he should be using Vi or Emacs, not echo. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
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