after command line install

[J. David Boyd]

David Hart wrote:
> On Wed 2007-01-03 15:59:49 -0500, J. David Boyd wrote:
> 
>> I've done a command line system install, then
>> sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
>> but I think I'm missing a few things, besides which, I don't know how to
>> make gnome be the manager started when I do startx.
>>
>> Does anyone know what to install to get the entire gnome shebang, as if
>> I did a visual install?
> 
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>  
>> And what do I run to set gnome to be run with startx?
> 
> One way is to edit ~/.xinitrc thus:
> 	
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
> 
> Then run:
> 
> 	chmod +x ~/.xinitrc
> 

Exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks!