> Using a small box P2 233 with 64M I installed Mandrake last night. > Running Mandrake first time I selected Gnome as my desktop. > > It took about 10 mins to create an all blue sceen. No foot, no icons, > no menu bar or anything else. After trying every combination of key > stokes I could not do anything. I was forced to kill Xwindows to get > back to normal. > > Using IceWM or KDE everything works fine but Gnome is just a blue > screen. > > What am I doing wrong?
You didn't try the BSOD theme, did you? (I'm pretty sure Mandrake didn't ship it anyway. It's a completely blue theme used to test accessibility and related bugs.) That's fairly unlikely. Not sure what this would be. I haven't heard of anything similar to it, so seeing it would probably help a bit. I'd have to say (and no offense to Frederic), that GNOME 2.x as shipped in Mandrake 9 is not all that great. That's not a great excuse, of course. ;-) [ 9.0 seemed to be a very rushed release, almost suggesting that they wanted to get 9.0 out before Red Hat 8.0 whatever the cost. :-( It's a real pity, because 8.2 was very sweet. ] If you manage to find out what behaviour causes it, I'd love to know. Thanks, - Jeff -- So, "Jeffrey" seems to mean "the ineffectual, victimised guy in American movies" in four different languages. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
