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vinceuuuu

Member

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 8

desktop start-up

Hello

please can you help me to get Arch to realize that it must execute my desktop environment called afterstep...

currently there is only one desktop on this machine called...........afterstep

when i get to my graphical log in screen (GDM)..i choose the afterstep session and then log in with my user detials....

then an error message appears.....

"there is no exec command in the afterstep session file....can't load session"

how do i run an editor and add this command into the session file for afterstep?

please can you show me the syntax of the command i need

thanks

Vince.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: desktop start-up

Follow the instructions on this wiki page:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sta … ents_HOWTO.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: desktop start-up

I re-read your post and realized I had missed something.

Arch comes with 2 editors installed, nano and vi.  Nano is much easier to use.  Type
nano <fileneme>

to start it.  The control keys needed to navigate are shown at the bottom of the window.