On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:49:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I was under the mistaken impression that wheezy still had a usable > gnome, as opposed to sid which has "upgraded" to gnome3.
Please, please.... don't confuse the terms :-) Repeat with me: "GNOME3 is not gnome-shell" (again) "GNOME3 is not gnome-shell" (once again) "GNOME3 is not gnome-shell" (just joking, of course) Wheezy has GNOME3 and the old gnome-panel (not gnome-shell), I mean, wheezy has what you call "an usable GNOME". Sid also has GNOME3 but with gnome-shell (featuring the new UI). Or at least that's what I have in my Wheezy that was installed months ago, so this of course could have changed. > So I installed gnome-session on a new wheezy install and got a desktop > with a background with 3 icons on it, computer, home and trash. Good. > But nothing works: there are no applications to select, no settings to > change. > > And it seems to be gnome3 because F1 works. It displays a help window > that mentions "gnome3", but of course nothing what it says is true > because nothing is selectable. > > Has anybody recently tried installing gnomse-session in wheezy? Is there > a way to "fix" this? Could it be that you have missed some of the required packages to get a full GNOME environment? Did you install any GNOME metapackage (e.g., "gnome-core" or "gnome-desktop-environment")? :-? > I tried installing gnome-session with "--no-install-recommends" and > without and the results are the same. > > I created a mondo backup before installing gnome, so it is trivial to > revert to before the install. I think we are getting a bit paranoid with the gnome3 and gnome-shell change that is coming :-P Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.04.18.18...@gmail.com
