Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts.
- -Once you have the GNOME &gnomever; desktop installed, - GNOME &gnomever; can be started by adding the following line - to ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, as - appropriate:
- --exec gnome-session -- - +
You still need to enable the + GNOME services to run e.g. the graphical login + automatically on system startup.
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 gnome_enable property, and - manually enable the services you want.
+ Avahi on system startup. If you do not want to run all + of these services, you should forgo the + gnome_enable property, and manually enable the + services you want. + +If you do not want to reboot immediately after the + installation, you can invoke + /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start as root to + bring up the GNOME login screen (although this will not + start the other services).
+ +Make GNOME &gnomever; start when X starts without + using GDM.
+ +The GNOME &gnomever; desktop can also be started by + adding the following line to ~/.xsession or + ~/.xinitrc, as appropriate (see also + startx(1)):
+ ++exec gnome-session +