Re: how to start gnome from the command line
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer
<debian-lists@florian-kulzer.eu> wrote:
> 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
did not do that!
next ...
kjetil
> automatically when you install gnome, AFAIK (to allow people to run the
> X server on another computer if they want to).
>
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