Re: Gnome in sarge; is there a default desktop?
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 21:13, David Gaudine wrote:
> On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 11:09 AM, David Gaudine wrote:
>
> > Is there supposed to be a desktop by default? If not, is there
> > something
> > simple to do to enable it? I'm looking through the documentation, but
> > I'm not doing very well.
>
> (Replying to myself)
> I received a suggestion by private email to install
> gnome-desktop-environment.
> There doesn't seem to be such a package in sarge, at least not at the
> moment.
> That could be the problem right there, or it could just be that gnome is
> packaged differently in Sarge.
If I'm not wrong, gnome-desktop-environment is a virtual package used in
sid to install the entire gnome desktop.
If you want to install gnome in Sarge, install gnome and gnome-core
packages.
Another point: gnome is a desktop environment which uses a window
manager (like sawfish, metacity or even E or Window Maker). Gdm is just
a graphical login screen like xdm or kdm.
Cheers,
Fred.
Namur LUG: http://www.namurlug.org
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