On Wed, Aug 20, 2003, Paul Cameron Davies wrote: > THE PROBLEM IS: my gnome desktop has disappeared. I seem to have > some very basic windowing system (but the colour and resolution is > great). Gnome is installed. I can start a gnome-terminal , I can > start the gnome-panel etc etc. I do not want to write a script myself > to start all this shit automatically - I simply want to know what set > of files contain the scripts that start all the gnome stuff that you > see in a release like redhat 8.0.
However, you should be able to change window managers/desktop environments at the login prompt. I assume you are seeing a login screen like the one Red Hat illustrates here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-starting-login.html#S2-STARTING-LOGIN-GRAPHICAL (if not, it is definitely worth telling us how you are logging in at present) If so, you should be able to click on "Session" at the bottom of the screen and select "GNOME" from the dialog box that pops up. ---- An alternative method is this: /usr/bin/gnome-session will normally launch the GNOME window manager, GNOME panel, GNOME background, etc etc. If you make a ~/.xession file that contains: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-session GNOME session should launch on startup. But even then, you may need to select "Xsession" from the Sessions dialog box, so you should try my first strategy before the ~/.xsession one. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
