Re: some problems with gnome
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
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