Re: Getting Gnome working....

[Simon Eilting <s-eilting gmx de>]

Tod, Simon R wrote:

> Hi,
> Hope you can help me out with this. I recently bought a laptop with Debian
> Linux (potato) pre-installed on it, though have plenty of past experience
> with UNIX I've got it running WindowMaker as a window manager. My desktop
> just looks blank apart from a paperclip symbol in the top left hand corner
> for switching between workspaces, and a couple of icons in the top right
> hand corner (all the icons are squares) do start such things as an xterm.
> Right clicking the mouse anywhere on the desktop brings up a menu, from
> which I can open the Gnome control centre, among other things, but I don't
> know where the Gnome panel and everything else. I guess it must be running
> KDE at the moment or something... So how do I get Gnome up and running...?
> Thanks in advance,
> Simon.
>
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What you see is the WindowMaker desktop. If you add something like "exec 
gnome-session" to your ~/.xinitrc (assuming you don't use xdm/gdm/kdm), 
you should see at least the splash-screen and the GNOME panel. You don't 
need to start a window manager from your ~/.xinitrc, because 
gnome-session will do that for you.