On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:47, Richard Hayes wrote: > Dear list, > > I am a KDE user for a number of years but I decided to try Gnome2 on a new > install as I have not looked at it for about 18 months. > > 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?
Not an answer, but something that might be worth trying - edit your ~/.desktop file so it reads: DESKTOP=GNOME then switch to runlevel 3 (run init 3 as root), login and run startx. I'm also a little puzzled by this, I've never had any issues with GNOME not starting (or indeed any of the other window managers). .. ooh, unless it was an upgrade - at one point I had two "GNOME"'s listed in my desktop thingy. One worked one didn't, but that was weirdo cooker stuff. It's possible that awful mandrake first time "wizard" or whatever it's called had something to do with this. Unfortunately I can't remember how to get rid of it. Try the above and get back to us. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
