On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:39:48AM +0000, Josh S wrote: > Hey everyone, > > when I load up gentoo it loads up a basic console login and when I try to > startx it loads up a really basic X interface with two terminals and a > analog looking clock. When I try to use xfce-session it loads up xfce but > things are out of place and it looks more like a basic X session.
It sounds like you're getting a TWM session. More savvy (and helpful) list members would point you to a helpful wiki page or something, but there are a couple of ways to do what you need. Which is the 'official' way or the gentoo-sanctioned way I don't quite know. First you can have an ~/.xinitrc or an ~/.xsession file which are semantically equivalent. Here's a sample ~/.xsession (or ~/.xinitrc) # load XFCE xfce & You can also modify your /etc/rc.conf file: XSESSION="xfce" Another way to select which Xsession to run is to define the XSESSION enviornment variable in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile export XSESION=xfce Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
