Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question
On 2016-04-05, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
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>> 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.
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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.
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