On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 11:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote: > On 2016-04-05, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> Result of my GNOME install: I typed 'startx' from my > >> command line, and I got a beautiful blue screen, a delight to the > >> eye after days of perusing tiny > > I get that too (blue, it must be the default desktop watchamacallit, > with a light-grayish swirl in the middle). > > > > >> characters on a black display. And in the middle of the > >> blue screen there was a handsome mouse arrow, which moved around > >> elegantly when controlled by my right hand. > > > > Have you moved it elegantly to the extreme upper-left hand corner of > the display? > > > Progress indeed. > > > >> And that was _all_!! No icons, nothing to click on . . . > >> I typed on the keyboard, no reaction . . . There must be some > >> simple way to get a proper GNOME started, but since I've never > >> used it before, I wonder if someone can give me a hint. > > > > The gnome I have has 'Activities' in the top left of the screen. > > > > Right. Activities. Wonder what they mean by that. It's as good a name as any, I suppose. The GNOME Overview is the central location where everything from the applications menu to open windows to a window list to workspaces are located, so it would make sense to give it some generic name. "Activities" means pretty much everything one would want to do with a computer.
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