From: Mark Cox <coxhome@optushome.com.au>
To: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] problem with the Desktop configuration guide
Date: 09 Jul 2002 09:27:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1026170840.4243.11.camel@mango> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1026158456.6840.4.camel@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu>
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On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 06:00, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > All I would like to suggest that in the Desktop Config guide you all have
> > posted that in between code listings 4 and 5 that you make it clear that you
> > need to issue the reboot command otherwise you will not be able to run startx.
> > It doesnt mention that anywhere and to a person who is coming from a Distro
> > where every thing X is done for you then it is not quite clear.
>
> I've _never_ had to reboot to run startx. It may not be in your path
> (I should change the docs to use the full path for startx, just
> in case), but just source /etc/profile.
>
> -g2boojum-
>
This is the one thing I love about linux, the only thing you need to
reboot for is a new kernel.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-08 18:26 [gentoo-dev] problem with the Desktop configuration guide Christopher Krull
2002-07-08 20:00 ` Grant Goodyear
2002-07-08 23:27 ` Mark Cox [this message]
2002-07-10 1:13 ` Christopher Krull
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