gnome, i think?

Codfishbaut · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

i have everything setup, im using gnome, or at least trying to, when i run startx it brings me to this fucked up screen with three white windows with green handles. i have no mouse and it doesnt show what i am typing until after i hit enter, i dont know what is going on, or if it is even in gnome, i set the USE variable to USE="gnome -kde" i dunno what else you need to know, any help?

ecrattlesnake · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:

that ugly windows manager isn't gnome... i think its something called "twm"... but here is what you have to do to get gnome up and running...

open up /etc/rc.conf and change the XSESSION variable to "Gnome" and change displaymanager to gdm. after that you can run gdm (which is the login manager) which will bring that up and you can get in to gnome, or run

[code]# rc-update add xdm default[\code]

which will run GDM on bootup...

hopefully that helps

badMojo · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 53

What you are seeing is the TWM window manager, not Gnome. TWM is the default window manager that comes with XFree (and Xorg). For future reference, Gnome is a desktop enviroment and TWM is a window manager. Gnome uses the Metacity window manager, but Gnome includes many more features and applications than a window manager does.

To use gnome, close the xserver you are in (ctrl+alt+backspace), and type:

ecrattlesnake · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 1:10 am Post subject:

there ya go... probably better than my response... and my confused attempt to use the bbcode thing after doing too much work in latex....

badMojo · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 53

Hehe

On a side note, I'm not sure what it going on with the text not showing up... hopefully using Gnome will fix that.

Are you using XFree or XOrg? There could be a font issue because XOrg uses different font path settings.

panickedthumb · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject:

Hey, I'm having the same problems as this dude, and my rc.conf is right, I have the line in my .xinitrc, but it still ignores metacity and wants to use TWM. I just reinstalled because somehing completely fubarred my last install.
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panickedthumb · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

ok scratch that, I finally got metacity to work, but now my gnome desktop doesn't show up at all. I mean the color shows up, but none of the icons. Any clues?
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