I installed a new potato system and, frankly, I am somewhat disappointed about the GNOME situation (although the rest of the system works excellent). It might be, that it is only a matter of missing documentation.
What I did: I selected Gnome Apps Gnome Desktop Gnome Games Gnome Net during a simple installation. What happend (after setting up X, ...): 1. xdm started. When logging in, TWM started. No sign of GNOME 2. I decided to install gdm instead of xdm. Maybe it is easier to start GNOME with gdm 3. GNOME started (panel) but NO window manager started 4. I started wmaker using the Control Center of GNOME 5. Logged out, logged in. GNOME and wmaker started. But now wmaker placed its icons over the GNOME panel. 6. Searched for documentation: dhelp: misc/GNOME FAQ/ Not Debian specific documentation 7. Search /usr/doc 8. Found /usr/doc/gnome-core/README.Debian: The previous maintainers' .xsession file looked something like this: -- xsetroot -solid slategrey & xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults fvwm2 & exec /usr/bin/gnome-session 9. No change at all 10. Writting this email now (and being close to adding deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib to /etc/apt/sources.list) Hopefully I only missed a single line somewhere, which avoids all the trouble for others. I just added Coolo, to show him that many Debian users might appreciate his work. Thanks. Rainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
