On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer <debian-li...@florian-kulzer.eu> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +0000, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > [...] > >> I had done >> apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment >> >> then >> startx >> gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command." >> >> Now I have also done >> apt-get install gdm >> apt-get install gnome >> <wait a long time> >> >> then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in, >> but am only given a blue screen without anything!!! >> >> What to do? > > Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done
did not do that! next ... kjetil > automatically when you install gnome, AFAIK (to allow people to run the > X server on another computer if they want to). > > -- > Regards, | > Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101112181442.ga30...@bavaria.univ-lyon1.fr > > -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikokvutdpxjsrk7h1m3p2-sy=eq2rruk-uck...@mail.gmail.com
