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The command to start GNOME with session management is gnome-session. <br />
To start GNOME without session management, you must run gnome-wm instead
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The command to start GNOME with session management is gnome-session.
To start GNOME without session management, you must run gnome-wm instead

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for more information about gnome and freebsd, please check this link.<br />
<a href="http://www2.pt.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www2.pt.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html</a>
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for more information about gnome and freebsd, please check this link.
http://www2.pt.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html [http://www2.pt.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html]

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Thanks for replying, I do use the gnome-session command prior to using startx, and I get the error messages I mentioned above, I must be missing some configuration that has to be done first, but I can't seem to find out what it is.<br />
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Engellan
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Thanks for replying, I do use the gnome-session command prior to using startx, and I get the error messages I mentioned above, I must be missing some configuration that has to be done first, but I can't seem to find out what it is.

Engellan

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I have installed FreeBSD 5.1, and I am at the command line logged in as root, when I try to start the GUI by using the startx command, it seems like its going to work, it thinks for a minute then gives me the message- &quot;xinit: Connection refused (errno 61) unable to connect to X server and xauth: bad display name in remove command. Could anyone tell me what Im doing wrong?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Engellan
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I have installed FreeBSD 5.1, and I am at the command line logged in as root, when I try to start the GUI by using the startx command, it seems like its going to work, it thinks for a minute then gives me the message- "xinit: Connection refused (errno 61) unable to connect to X server and xauth: bad display name in remove command. Could anyone tell me what Im doing wrong?


Thanks,
Engellan

Starting gnome GUI from command line in FreeBSD

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