On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:52:01PM +0100, Raphaël Scateni wrote: | Hi, | | I am running debian woody, with gnome 1.4 | When launching gnome, i have a message
How are you launching gnome? Via 'startx' or gdm? | 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. This means you are running a window manager that doesn't know about gnome's features. (if you have no window manager running, it qualifies ;-)) | Moreover, some details are strange : | -my mouse pointer is always a cross | -i can't fiw a backgroung picture (i just have a black and white backgroung | like this one of the starting) | -i can't move the windows on the desktop Likely you aren't running any window manager yet. | -i don't have icons on the desktop This is a 'gmc' thing -- I hate them (RH puts them there) and fortunately I don't have it in Debian ;-). | -i have hardly anything in the startup menu, whereas lots of programs are | installed I don't know why this is, but I rarely use the foot menu anyways. I'm going to take a guess that you don't have a window manager installed on your system. Start by 'apt-get install sawfish-gnome'. Once you have it installed, start up gnome again. If you still get the message and can't move windows around, go to a terminal and run "sawfish". Then be sure and select it in the Gnome Control Center so that it will be choosen next time. Close GNOME and start it again. Solved? -D -- Failure is not an option. It is bundled with the software.