Gnome?

bmorgan98 · 07-15-2004, 09:13 PM

Hi This is the First time i have got to grips with linux. (mandrake 10)

Anyhow All is well on the KDE side, however i would like to use gnome aswell so my question is how do i start it ive been reading through

man gnome but havent a clue

is it something todo with runlevel?

Anyhow i know gnome was installed by mandrake installation, and to start KDE i key in 'startx' at the bash prompt

is the a command to start gnome?

hopefully i make sense please correct me if i make no sense, heh

thank you.

BajaNick · 07-15-2004, 10:15 PM

Type xwmconfig in a console then choose gnome, if that dosnt work hit Ctrl-alt-backspace then type" startx gnome"also check out this link:

http://www.rapierbit.org/linux/winmgrs.html

diablo111 · 07-15-2004, 10:25 PM

Yup, the command to start Gnome (from the command line) is gdm.

mrcheeks · 07-15-2004, 10:58 PM

startx /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session

OldBob · 07-15-2004, 11:36 PM

bmorgan98,

Are you set up to where you click on your "user icon" then enter your password ??

As I remember Mandrake, that window has a button next to the "KDE" that is labeled "Menu" [or something like that] the drop down menu should give you a GNOME choice.

bmorgan98 · 07-16-2004, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by OldBob
bmorgan98,

Are you set up to where you click on your "user icon" then enter your password ??

As I remember Mandrake, that window has a button next to the "KDE" that is labeled "Menu" [or something like that] the drop down menu should give you a GNOME choice.

thankyou all for replying, bob there is no login gui it is text based bash.