Re: GNOME installation screw-up
dear matthew
:c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the above two problems
try Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F6
will switch to vitual consoles.... where u can log in...
cheers
venu
:I downloaded the GNOME 1.0 distribution with apt, installed, put the
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:"exec gnome-session"
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:line in my .xsession file, and quit X to try out what I had done. Oops.
:
:I could have done the smart thing and logged out as Root before I put
:any GNOME startup stuff in a .xsession, but NOOO. I was too eager for
:that. Now, I can't get out of xdm at all if I try to log in as Root; if
:I try to log in with one of the user accounts, Enlightenment breaks --
:possibly because they had existing .enlightenment directories from the
:0.14 that came with Slink.
:
:I wouldn't have a problem, except that I can't figure out how to get out
:of XDM and into another virtual console so that I could fix stuff (well,
:maybe I'd still have a problem, but I wouldn't be completely stuck in XDM
:where I can't do anything)
:
:So, any ideas about
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:a) why X won't start as root (the account with "exec gnome-session" in
:the .xsession file)
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:b) why Enlightenment isn't working on user accounts with no GNOME startup
:instructions
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:or
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