whats the correct way of starting gnome

[tommiy <tommiy ozemail com au>]

How are you suppose to start gnome when you start your window manager.
Following the gnome page it says 


First question most people have is "How do I start GNOME?". Currently
the preferred method is to have the following in your
  $(HOME)/.xinitrc file (or whatever file your window manager is started
by): 

        background-properties --init &
        keyboard-properties --init &
        mouse-properties --init &
        panel &
        exec <your favorite window manager>


but this causes error messages from all the properties programs
complaining about the --init option. Also under this configuration when
gnome does start the background-panel chews 98% of the cpu resources,
killing it works fine.

The faq page says to make 

gnome-session the last line of your .xinitrc but this file is not
included in any of the packages i've dl'ed from the ftp site.

There appears a conflict of info here....can anyone tell me the correct
way of starting ?