Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get Jay> install gdm.
Note that this will just install the GNOME display manager; it won't install any of the rest of the GNOME stuff that gdm doesn't directly need. Jay> 1, When the gnome login screen appears I select gnome for my Jay> session from the drop down mune and enter my login and pass and Jay> hit enter. The screen goes black the right back to the login Jay> screen. But if I choose xsession for the drop down menu and log Jay> in with the same login X starts fine. Whats going on here? Do I Jay> need to set something up still? It's probably trying to run 'gnome-session' and failing, since that isn't installed. 'apt-get install gnome-session' will get you that, for a kind of minimalist GNOME environment. What you probably really want to install is the 'task-gnome-desktop' package, which contains nothing in and of itself but depends on the standard GNOME desktop tools. You also might want 'task-gnome-apps' or 'task-gnome-games'. Looking at these packages in dselect (hit 'i' while that line is selected) will show you what they depend on if you don't want to install the task package but do want some of the other things. Jay> 2, How can I make Gnome not start after the machine is booted. I Jay> know with X, I changed the /etc/X11/S99xdm file. What will I need Jay> to change here? Same deal, but it's gdm and not xdm. I assume that you want to manually start gdm after a console login; otherwise, something with ordering 99 is as close to "after the machine is booted" as you can get. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
