On 2016-04-05, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > >> Result of my GNOME install: I typed 'startx' from my command >> line, and I >> got a beautiful blue screen, a delight to the eye after days of >> perusing tiny
I get that too (blue, it must be the default desktop watchamacallit, with a light-grayish swirl in the middle). >> characters on a black display. And in the middle of the blue screen >> there was >> a handsome mouse arrow, which moved around elegantly when controlled >> by my right >> hand. > Have you moved it elegantly to the extreme upper-left hand corner of the display? > Progress indeed. > >> And that was _all_!! No icons, nothing to click on . . . I typed on >> the keyboard, >> no reaction . . . There must be some simple way to get a proper >> GNOME started, >> but since I've never used it before, I wonder if someone can give me >> a hint. > > The gnome I have has 'Activities' in the top left of the screen. > Right. Activities. Wonder what they mean by that. -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
