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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