On Monday 16 May 2005 16:19, Earl Gibbs wrote: > Keith Powell wrote: > >I have installed LE 2005 on my spare hard drive, for checking it > > out. The installation included both KDE and Gnome. But Gnome does > > not appear as a session in the desktop manager for selecting. > > > >There is probably a file somewhere which has to be edited, but I > > can't find it. I thought that Gnome should appear automatically in > > the list of sessions. > > > >Please, how do I get Gnome to run? > > > >Many thanks > > > >Keith > > Keith > > I would wipe (write zeros ) the drive and do a new install with Gnome > selected. > > Have found starting with a "clean" drive sometimes helps. > > Gnome should appear in the Session select box -& it should work. > > Earl
Thanks for the suggestion, Earl. I did as you said. Sorry, but I have had no success. I did a fresh install with only Gnome and ICEWM selected. There was only ICEWM shown in the list of sessions in GDM. Trying to start Gnome via a Failsafe boot and "startx gnome" did not work (it ran ICEWM instead!). So, whilst in ICEWM, using Drakrpm, I uninstalled Gnome and reinstalled it. This time I got the two seconds of Gnome starting again, then nothing. I then repeated all the above but without ICEWM being installed. Again, nothing with a failsafe boot and the flash of starting with a graphical boot. As no one else appears to have had any problems with running Gnome, I am wondering if there is something wrong with my DVD. KDE is quite OK. It looks as though I will have to abandon seeing what Gnome in LE2005 is like. Cheers Keith
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