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Clarify how one starts GNOME given all of its required dependent services.

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Joe Marcus Clarke 2007-09-20 16:20:53 +00:00
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml,v 1.125 2007/06/23 21:32:53 marcus Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml,v 1.126 2007/06/23 21:45:39 marcus Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME &gnomever; FAQ">
<!ENTITY email "freebsd-gnome">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.gnome "INCLUDE">
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# make install clean
</pre>
<p><u>Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts.</u></p>
<p>Once you have the GNOME &gnomever; desktop installed,
GNOME &gnomever; can be started by adding the following line
to <tt>~/.xsession</tt> or <tt>~/.xinitrc</tt>, as
appropriate:</p>
<pre>
exec gnome-session
</pre>
</li>
<p>You still need to <a href="#full-gnome">enable the
GNOME services</a> to run e.g. the graphical login
automatically on system startup.</p> </li>
<!-- Q Full-GNOME -->
<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a
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</pre>
<p>This will enable services such as GDM, HAL, D-BUS, and
Avahi. If you do not want to run all of these services,
you should forgo the <em>gnome_enable</em> property, and
manually enable the services you want.</p>
Avahi on system startup. If you do not want to run all
of these services, you should forgo the
<em>gnome_enable</em> property, and manually enable the
services you want.</p>
<p>If you do not want to reboot immediately after the
installation, you can invoke
<tt>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start</tt> as root to
bring up the GNOME login screen (although this will not
start the other services).</p>
<p><u>Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts without
using GDM.</u></p>
<p>The GNOME &gnomever; desktop can also be started by
adding the following line to <tt>~/.xsession</tt> or
<tt>~/.xinitrc</tt>, as appropriate (see also
<tt>startx(1)</tt>):</p>
<pre>
exec gnome-session
</pre>
</li>
<!-- Q2 -->