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Gnome is a G-nightmare!



I apt-get'ed the task-gnome-desktop package to try it out with Sawmill, but
using it really messed things up. For root, everything was fine but for me
(user david) it couldn't have been worse.

I changed my .xesession to have only exec gnome-session. But only
Enlightenment would display. I got no Gnome icons or menus or desktop.
Nothing. It just looked like E until I logged out, when I got the Gnome
save-session dialog box. I tried using jed, and I couldn't use the backspace
key. It was hell.

But for root I got all I exepected: Gnome desktop with the ability to
configure it.

What gives?
-- 
David J. Kanter
djkanter@nwu.edu

"Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies
and coincidences."
  -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University


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