Re: gnome3 now in wheezy?
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:49:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> I was under the mistaken impression that wheezy still had a usable
> gnome, as opposed to sid which has "upgraded" to gnome3.
Please, please.... don't confuse the terms :-)
Repeat with me:
"GNOME3 is not gnome-shell"
(again)
"GNOME3 is not gnome-shell"
(once again)
"GNOME3 is not gnome-shell"
(just joking, of course)
Wheezy has GNOME3 and the old gnome-panel (not gnome-shell), I mean,
wheezy has what you call "an usable GNOME". Sid also has GNOME3 but with
gnome-shell (featuring the new UI). Or at least that's what I have in my
Wheezy that was installed months ago, so this of course could have
changed.
> So I installed gnome-session on a new wheezy install and got a desktop
> with a background with 3 icons on it, computer, home and trash.
Good.
> But nothing works: there are no applications to select, no settings to
> change.
>
> And it seems to be gnome3 because F1 works. It displays a help window
> that mentions "gnome3", but of course nothing what it says is true
> because nothing is selectable.
>
> Has anybody recently tried installing gnomse-session in wheezy? Is there
> a way to "fix" this?
Could it be that you have missed some of the required packages to get a
full GNOME environment? Did you install any GNOME metapackage (e.g.,
"gnome-core" or "gnome-desktop-environment")? :-?
> I tried installing gnome-session with "--no-install-recommends" and
> without and the results are the same.
>
> I created a mondo backup before installing gnome, so it is trivial to
> revert to before the install.
I think we are getting a bit paranoid with the gnome3 and gnome-shell
change that is coming :-P
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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