On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +0000, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: [...]
> I had done > apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment > > then > startx > gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command." > > Now I have also done > apt-get install gdm > apt-get install gnome > <wait a long time> > > then, on boot gnome starts, I get a login window, do log in, > but am only given a blue screen without anything!!! > > What to do? Did you install xorg or at least xinit? This is not necessarily done automatically when you install gnome, AFAIK (to allow people to run the X server on another computer if they want to). -- Regards, | Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu -- 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/20101112181442.ga30...@bavaria.univ-lyon1.fr