On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 19:52, Raphaël Scateni wrote: Hello Raphaël,
> > Desk guide alert > gnome desktop guide > you are running a gnome compliant window manager > gnome support by the window manager is strongly recommended for proper > desk guide operation. GNOME users often tend to use Sawfish, Enlightenment, IceWM or Windowmaker as their window managers. Do you have them installed? If not, just do (as root) e.g. a: apt-get install sawfish and enter the gnome control center (if there is no link to it, just hack "gnomecc" in xterm/gnome-terminal/eterm (whatever)) and go to the "Window Manager" section and select it. On pressing "try" or "ok", you now should have all right (and can move the windows). > > Moreover, some details are strange : > -my mouse pointer is always a cross fixme: should be done by the window manager (see above) > -i can't fiw a backgroung picture (i just have a black and white backgroung mh, by default, gnome displays a kind of blue colour. Well, could be changed to whatever you like in the control center > -i don't have icons on the desktop i have them seen when using gmc (midnight commander with GNOME frontend/bindings). for a newer (but bit slower) "version" you should install nautilus, it will handle desk icons and optionally the background > -i can't move the windows on the desktop window manager (s.a.) > -i have hardly anything in the startup menu, whereas lots of programs are > installed most probably you have not installed gnome-media, gnome-utilities etc. when done, most of the menus are filled. note that there are just gnome and pure gtk apps listed. in the debian submenus you may find other bare x apps (e.g. ghosview etc.). > > Finally, when i close x session, i can read "Gdk-warning **: locale not > supported by C library you have not installed locale support for gnome. never have done it. just ignore that error; or if needed, install some ISO fonts (e.g. ISO-8859-1 for most european fonts and browse a bit with dselect for locales (done with the "/" key in deselect). > > Thanks for your help > > Raphaël Hope that helps, Timo