Re: XF86 4.0.1

[Peter A Barros <p a barros larc nasa gov>]

I am really new to all this, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks


On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> Peter A Barros wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed RedHat 6.2 and I was using the gnome desktop quite
> > happily, but today i just updated to XF86 4.0.1. and now when i do
> > "startx" i don't get the nice gnome desktop but rather some unix-esque (i
> > have no clue what it is, i'm a mac person myself, and fairly new to all
> > this jazz...) terminal windows
> >
> > is my gnome gone?
> > can i get it back, if so how?
> > if not, can i download a new one from somewhere, and will it work on
> > 4.0.1?
> >
> > any help would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> 
> I might be way off, but I believe the default X settings overwrote the ones
> that launch GNOME.  If you didn't delete your old X (you should have just
> installed over it), then setting the login manager option in /etc/inittab
> back to gdm might be a good idea.
> 
> Sean Middleditch
> 
> 
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