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donde
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 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:46 am Post subject: No Desktop |
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Newie just finished installing Gentoo. Boots OK to login and can login and move around FS.
But, no desktop seen just a command line prompt.
Please Help
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Good. Now you need to emerge a Window Manager of your choice. I imagine you'll want an all-in-one solution such as KDE or Gnome | Code: | | # emerge xorg-x11 KDE |
obviously replace KDE with Gnome if you want Gnome. But this is all said in the install guide... sou you might want to go read on that a bit more.
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donde
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:15 am Post subject: How do I do it? |
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Do I put in Live CD and get chroot and then do the emerge? I just tried the command from login (no liveCD) and got back "There are no e-builds to satisfy xorg-x11", so I guess we never got any from portage. So, in order to get them....??? Do I have to re-complle again?
Please give me some steps to follow.
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Metroidfan_Prime
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Ah, no. You just want to do
not xorg-x11
Sorry if that isn't right, but that's how it is for me. |
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HellFace
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:29 am Post subject: |
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If you just
emerge gnome
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emerge kde
X11 will automatically be emerged so no need to emerge x11 or xorg-x11 |
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donde
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: Did emerge x11 gnome |
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Did emerge x11 gnome already and it's going on forever. I hear it might go on for day or two. I just want gnome. How is X11 connected? As you can see, very much a newbie. Could I have saved time and space doing just what you mentioned? After, it all completes, do you have any tips to get to work? I saw a section in gentoo wikipedia on how to enable gnome and I guess this should work. A friend has been working on his install of Gentoo and we both did reboot about the same minute. We've been talking over Skype. And he saw the exact same NO DESKTOP. We wondered why this was not apparent in the handbook. We did get splash screen, and login, but that's it. Couldn't believe we would not get more than that with all the downloading of stage3 and portage. But, what do we know !
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HellFace
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: Re: Did emerge x11 gnome |
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| donde wrote: | Did emerge x11 gnome already and it's going on forever. I hear it might go on for day or two. I just want gnome. How is X11 connected? As you can see, very much a newbie. Could I have saved time and space doing just what you mentioned? After, it all completes, do you have any tips to get to work? I saw a section in gentoo wikipedia on how to enable gnome and I guess this should work. A friend has been working on his install of Gentoo and we both did reboot about the same minute. We've been talking over Skype. And he saw the exact same NO DESKTOP. We wondered why this was not apparent in the handbook. We did get splash screen, and login, but that's it. Couldn't believe we would not get more than that with all the downloading of stage3 and portage. But, what do we know !
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emerge x11 gnome and emerge gnome do the same thing (for the most part. That was the only point I was making). Gnome requires X11 to run so portage will automatically install it also. So, to answer your question, no you would not have saved any time or space.
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echo "exec gnome-session" >> .xinitrc
startx |
at the command prompt should get you to your desktop when it is done installing.
Edit : typo |
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donde
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: OK on time and space |
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Thanks, so much.
I'll give it a go
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mark_alec
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:20 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Metroidfan_Prime wrote: | Ah, no. You just want to do
not xorg-x11
Sorry if that isn't right, but that's how it is for me. |
True... but the nature of the original post suggests the user is new to all this. Starting with the modular X might not be the best idea. At least as far as I understand things... x11 provides only the core X, ommiting the drivers and such. I might as well be wrong on this one tho.
| donde wrote: | | How is X11 connected? |
X11 provides a drawing layer onto which the various Window Managers draw things (the things we call GUI). Without X you basically have no "canvas" on which you could draw and thus no GUI will run without it (cept for ncurses based things... but that's not exactly what you want.).
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donde
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: Solved |
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Got gnome finally, and got a desktop. Now, I find out no sound. I'll work on it.
Thanks to all who helped
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FcukThisGame
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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May I suggest the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml)
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donde
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: Alsa |
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Going there
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