On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > I still can't get Gnome to run properly. Actually, it comes up fine and my > > custom screen background looks the same as it did before. It's just the > > panel that is missing. And Alt-F2 won't open a terminal. However, I can > > get to the command line with Ctrl-Alt-Fx and back to the GUI with > > Ctrl-Alt-F7. And Ctrl-Alt-Del pops up the shutdown options window. And the > > bluetooth mouse is working. > > Every now and then this happens on Slackware with Xfce, too. No panel. I > do get a command dialog box with alt-f2 and can type 'xfce4-panel &' to > restart the panel. The session manager keeps it coming back. > > Can you restart the panel manually? Does a right-click on the main window > bring up a menu from which you can open a terminal? The problem is that I can't get a terminal open in the GUI. Alt-F2 does nothing. I can get to the command line with Ctrl-Alt-F1, but when I give it the command 'gnome-panel &' it just announces "Cannot open display." Of course it can't, 'cause I'm not in the GUI. I need to get a terminal open in the GUI, but Alt-F2 doesn't work. The keyboard and mouse are otherwise working fine. I'm just staring at a completely blank screen. I don't like icons on my screen, so I turned off the desktop visibility a long time ago. Normally when I boot up I get a blank screen with the one Gnome panel that has all my stuff on it. It's troubling that Alt-F2 isn't working, because that may be symptomatic of a deeper problem than just a missing panel. I mean, suppose I do finally get a GUI terminal window open and try to launch an app from the command line. What if it won't launch? But I'm borrowing trouble here. First I need to get a GUI terminal up and then I can figure out what is going on. Does anyone know any other secret way to get a terminal window open besides Alt-F2? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
