I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was doing. I put "exec gnome-session" in the .xsession file, copying what Matthew said. (I suppose copying someone who's having problems may not be the best thing to do, but what the heck.) My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not found", and indeed there's no such thing on my system. I did install all of the non-developmental Gnome-related packages. dpkg -S gnome-session tells me "not found", though I can't find the -S switch on the dpkg man page so I may be confused about that too.
----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Userslist <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:14 AM Subject: Re: GNOME installation screw-up > > >> "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.
