using startx to run gnome

[Steve Holmes]

I just installed gnome recently on my new laptop which is running Arch
and don't recall having to install any extra packages other than the
gnome and gnome-extra packages.  Well, in that, I had previously
installed xorg as instructed by the Arch wiki and I think I had to
install one of the video packages for my system; forgot with one
now. but I think there's a group to install gnome-video which might
cover this issue.  Beond that, I pretty much got gnome and Orca going
just fine.

I may go and look for xdg-dirs though since one little hickup was the
normal gnome user folders didn't automatically get created for some
reason.  I would have thought that would have gone in with standard
packages though.  Anyway, I have Arch Linux including gnome and Orca
just flying along nicely on two machines here.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:53:54PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello Igor,
> On my arch linux system I discovered that I needed to install a couple packages beyond gnome and gnome-extras.
> 
> Installing the xdg-user-dirs package eliminated the need for the 
> XDG variables in the .xinitrc file.  I also found that the PYTHONPATH varialbe was not needed.
> 
> I also discovered that the gnome-terminal needs to be installed as a 
> separate arch package.
> 
> So my .xinitrc consists of one "exec" command and no exports.
> 
> I suggest that other arch linux users insttall gnome and take orca for a test drive.  
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:10:25PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > It's been a while since I've configured ORca and friends since I haven't
> > upgraded in a while, but here goes. While I don't use Arch on this laptop, this
> > Xinitrc that I use to get this going will probably help:
> > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/gnome/share
> > export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/gnome/etc/xdg
> > export
> > PYTHONPATH=/opt/gnome/lib64/python2.6/site-packages:/opt/gnome/lib/python2.6/site-packages:/opt/gnome/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0
> > exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
> > 
> > You may have to modify paths and things a bit from the above, but assuming you
> > have stuff in /opt it should work. As for Orca, if I recall I first ran orca -t,
> > and selected the option to have it run at startup. Hope this helps somewhat.
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to run gnome using startx rather than gdm on arch linux.
> > > Does anyone have an example of a .xinitrc file to get me started?
> > > I can get into gnome, but my environment variables such as $PATH 
> > > aren't set because I can't start orca with
> > > altl+f2 orca (enter).
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > > 
> > > Chris
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