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mr-tux

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Registered: 2005-07-10

Posts: 24

gnome wont start when i type in gnome-session

the computor says

GTK-WARNING **: cannot open display:[/list]

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i run arch on a laptop

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: gnome wont start when i type in gnome-session

You need to put it in your ~/.xinitrc and run 'startx'

mr-tux

Member

Registered: 2005-07-10

Posts: 24

Re: gnome wont start when i type in gnome-session

gnome says cant find url for arch and under george i cant edit start gnome and i dont know why

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i run arch on a laptop

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: gnome wont start when i type in gnome-session

Add portmap, fam, dbus, and hal to your list of daemons to run on startup. Portmap must be started before fam, and dbus before hal. If you want to run Gnome during this session, without rebooting, than start those daemons manually:

/etc/rc.d/[whatever] start

Put

exec gnome-session

in your ~/.xinitrc, as iphitus said.

Start the X session with xinit or startx.