On Thursday 29 May 2003 12:37 pm, David Bell wrote:...I have a new install of mandrake 9.1 The installation seems> to have been successful apart from two problems.
> But the main problem is that when I try to start up the GUI> CLI?all that's displayed are a variety of backgrounds which keep refreshing but not displaying anything else that's useful. Eventually it gives up and reverts to the CLI.
I found a posting on this list from a few weeks ago reporting a similar problem. It appeared the problem lay with KDE and other windows managers worked fine. The solution that was recommended was to run 'xtart' which would allow me to select another windows manager instead of KDE. However I can't find such a program on my system.
So how do I switch to a different windows manager from the
David, did you install *other graphical desktops* during your initial install ?
To find out, open a terminal (console) and type : 1. rpm -q gnome ( if no answer, go on ) 2. rpm -q icewm ( if no answer, go on ) 3. rpm -q blackbox ( if no answer, go on ) 4. rpm - q fluxbox ( if no answer, go on ) 5. rpm -q xfce ... and so on and so forth ( there are dozens of 'em)
If you don't have those, install them. You can do that from your install-CD's. Just change into the RPMS directory where they are located, become root and type *urpmi gnome* or *urpmi whateverthefilename*. Next time you boot, they are right at your fingertips.
I did indeed select all of the graphical desktop options during installation.
Using rpm -q as you suggested only showed a result for icewm, but none of the others. But then it didn't show an entry for kde either.
The RPMS directory on the install CD had lots of 'gnome' related rpms. They all have complex name structures and it's not clear which of them is gnome itself and which are supporting packages. Presumably there are lots of interdependencies. I don't know which one to install.
In the light of the complex RPM names it seems to me that rpm -q would fail unless I knew the exact name of the package I'm looking for. So I think the results from running rpm -q are inconclusive.
A search on the hard disk for file names containing 'gnome' showed up a whole raft of files which suggests to me that it is in fact installed.
In any case, even if I do manage to install the other desktops - or indeed if they're there already - the question remains - how do I pick the one I want from the CLI.
Regards
David Bell
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