Try creating a ~ /.xinitrc with "gnome-session" inside of it. On 21-Mar-2001 Rick Commo wrote: > Time to go to the well (debian-user) again! > > A couple of weeks ago I decided that Debian would be my distro of choice. > It's been a struggle but a rewarding one so far. Had a "simple" install > that was sorta broken (WindowMaker was scrawed) but now have it going. Did > another "simple" install to another parition and it was fine. So I now have > "debian-stable" and "debian-test" partitions. > > Tonight I really played with apt-get for the first time. Got Netscape OK, > then went for Ximian Gnome (full install). Had to grab gimp1.2 first but > then Ximian seemed to go fine. > > Now for the problem. > > Ximian Gnome seemed to install ok, but now do I actually get set up the root > and my user account to use Gnome/Sawfish? > > I assume that Sawfish is the default WM for Ximian Gnome. > > I tried "update-alternatives --config x-window-manager". It listed out > WindowMaker, TWM and Sawfish. When I chose Sawfish, logged out and logged > back in all I got was the gray "X" screen. > I did <ctrl><alt><bs> and the XServer restarted, logged in again, same > thing. > > Went to a virtual display and found that > /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager->/bin/sawfish. I changed that to > /usr/bin/sawfish. When I logged in again all I got was a single terminal > window with no frame in the upper left of my screen. > > I did get WindowMaker back, but would like to go to a full Gnome environment > with the Gnome desktop etc. > > Any help greatly appreciated (thrashing(**) is fine up to a point!) > -rick > > (**) at home it's simply "thrashing", at work it's better known as > "heuristic investigation". I will continue to read/flail in the meantime.
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