Was Using Gnome, now I think XFCE, want Gnome Back
Hi,
I am running redhat FC6 x86_64. I just reinstalled the system. It was working fine, but I had trouble getting the sound to work. I remember that formerly I needed to turn this on somewhere. I was looking around for it and exploring various settings for various things and ended up changing something that required a reboot. After the reboot, I did not get the Gnome desktop. I think it is XFCE. How do I get the Gnome desktop back. Thanks for your help. Ed |
Logout of XFCE and in the login manager select GNOME as the session you would like to run.
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Thanks for your response. Gnome doesn't show up as a session option. The only options are
Last Session 1. Default System Session Failsafe Terminal |
Can someone help me with this? When I login, I get an xclock in the upper right, a terminal window, and firefox. If I left click on the desktop I get a menu with the heading "Twm." The only options are "Iconify," "Resize," "Move," "Raise," "Lower," "Focus," "Unfocus," "Show Iconmgr," "Hide Iconmgr," "Xterm," "Kill," "Delete," "Restart" and "Exit." There are not options to bring up other programs. I can bring up other programs from the xterm.
Ed |
Did you uninstall any GTK/GNOME packages? Anyway when you get to the login manager, try doing CTRL-ALT-F1 so that you access the command line, login as root and do "init 3". After that exit as root and switch to your normal user (still in the command line). Do the following
Code:
$echo "exec gnome-session" >> ~/.xinitrc |
When I did the init 3 I got
starting backgorund readahead: [OK] starting irqbalance [OK] __nary handler for windows applications already registered [OK] xend For the last line above, I couldn't determine the characters. The screen cuts them off. After the startx command I got AIGLX: screen 0 is not DRI capable /home/ed/.xinitrc: line 1 exec gnome-session : not found __eeFontPath: FPE "unix/:7100" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing It still doesn't work. Also, if it matters, I am running x86_64. Ed |
From the results, gnome-session is not found. This means that GNOME is probably not installed. Try logging in as root and then in the command line, do
Code:
#yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" |
Thanks for your help. It is working fine now. I said in my first message that I was trying to get the sound to work. Before that, I was trying to unistall the evolution email client. I am using thunderbird, but when I click on a email link it brought up the setup steps to evolution. I thought that I would unistall the evolution program because of this. I think I accidentally uninstalled gnome. Thanks again for your help. Have a good day.
Ed:) |
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