Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DG" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was DG> doing. Did you read http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml ? DG> My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not found", and DG> indeed there's no such thing on

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread David Gaudine
that too. - Original Message - From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Userslist Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:14 AM Subject: Re: GNOME installation screw-up > > >> "MMD" == Matthew Myers Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > M

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MMD" == Matthew Myers Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MMD> a) why X won't start as root (the account with "exec MMD> gnome-session" in the .xsession file) Check ~/.xsession-errors for clues about why it didn't start properly. MMD> c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the ab

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Venu
dear matthew :c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the above two problems try Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F6 will switch to vitual consoles where u can log in... cheers venu :I downloaded the GNOME 1.0 distribution with apt, installed, put the : :"exec gnome-session" : :line in my .

GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Myers Davis
I downloaded the GNOME 1.0 distribution with apt, installed, put the "exec gnome-session" line in my .xsession file, and quit X to try out what I had done. Oops. I could have done the smart thing and logged out as Root before I put any GNOME startup stuff in a .xsession, but NOOO. I was too e