> > 1. I installed Gnome, why am I not getting kicked into Gnome when I > > do 'startx'? I think I am in just WindowMaker. I have the Main icon > > in upper left, and three on the right. How do I do the Gnome thing? > > There are many ways; I think what you probably want to do is > 'apt-get install gdm'.
Here are some of the other ways, in case you don't want to run gdm: If you want to make Gnome the system-wide default x startup, run 'update-alternatives --config x-session-manager' as root. If you want to change your X11 startup by hand, edit ~/.xsession . You will want to change the last line to 'exec gnome-session'. If this file does not exist, copy the one in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/examples/. If you don't plan to use windowmaker, you can simply uninstall it and xinit should successfully find gnome-session instead.
