RE: Problems starting Gnome

[Michael Scottaline <mr scott operamail com>]

>===== Original Message From Tobias Neubert <tobias@neubert.com> =====
>Hi,
>
>I can't start Gnome. I installed all the Gnome packeges from the SuSE
>6.1 Distribution and tried to start Gnome with 'startx gnome'. But
>everything I saw, was the grey screen of my X server without running any
>windowmanager.
>
>Then I got all packeges from ftp.suse.de/suse_update/GNOME/... I
>installed them and tried the command 'startx gnome' again. Now the
>result was different to the first try: KDE started.
>
>'startx' tries to find an entry in the list returning from 'wmlist' that
>matches the first parameter, in this case 'gnome'. That parameter is
>then given to '.xinitrc' via the variable $WINDOWMANAGER. At the end of
>'.xinitrc' the script executes $WINDOWMANAGER (in this case gnome). But
>neither 'wmlist' returns an entry called 'gnome' (so that the
>standardwindowmanager is taken (in my case KDE is started)) nor a script
>called 'gnome' exists on my computer.
>
>Could anybody help me?
>Thanks in advance, Tobias

Perhaps the problem is that you are not starting a window manager.  Gnome 
itself is NOT a window manager (KDE has its own).  Do you have E installed or 
some other window manager?  <Just a guess on my part> ;o)