How to start Gnome2-lite

[Siraj Shaikh]

Guys

I have managed to to do what you say and now when I type in startx, it
does show me a box saying "This session is running as a privileged
user" and asking me to either COntinue or Quit. My mouse isnt working
at this stage and I cant press either of the buttons. Neither is tab
or space or alt c working. What to do?

Your help is much appreciated

I am running as root because this machine is not used for any other
purpose, behind a firewall, not connected to any other machine and is
only being used for testing little utilities.

On 05/03/2008, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:31:37 -0500
> "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > whaaaa
> >
> > echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
> >
> > sounds like potentially a new user we have no idea what directory he
> > might be in
> >
> > silly unix tricks....
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:23:49 -0500
> > > "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > notice i typed ~/.xinitrc    not /.xinitrc      see the "~"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > the ~/ means your home diretcory
> > > >
> > > > ie /root if your logged in as root
> > > >
> > > > and you typed
> > > >
> > > > cd ~/
> > > >
> > > > it would cd you into /root
> > > >
> > > > if you were logged in as siraj and you typed cd ~/
> > > >
> > > > it would cd you into /home/siraj ...
> > > >
> > > > follow...?
> > > >
> > > > so vi ~/.xinitrc
> > >
> > > Alternatively (and assuming .xinitrc does not exist)
> > >
> > > echo "exec gnome-session" > .xinitrc
> > >
> > > If it does:
> > >
> > > echo "exec gnome-session" >> .xinitrc
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best regards,
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8
>
>
> Haha! Good point - I didn't think of that!
> Nice catch.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
> Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8
>
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