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04gto

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Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 8

gnome issue?

Ok, I have a fresh install of the current arch, all i did so far was edit the rc.conf for my network, then do
pacman -Sy to sync, then pacman -S xorg, then pacman -S gnome.

After this is all done, i do gnome-session, and i get a gtk warning, so after some hunting on here and google, i find that I need to run 'startx' first, so i do, and this is what i get:

Ok, i thought this was odd, but im new to linux.
So now i do gnome-session, and every popup, the upper and lower bar, splash screen and so-on has to be manually placed. I cant find anything about this.

I know its not a problem as I am sure there is something I am overlooking.

I tried the wiki on how to set up xorg, and came up with the same results.

Im using VMware as a platform, 256ram 64video

Thanks for the help,

also, everything is being done as root, as I have not set up users yet.

EDIT:  I should add that I dont have this problem with xfce, this starts without issuing startx, i have not tried kde.

Last edited by 04gto (2008-03-06 00:51:15)

blu3ness

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From: Edmonton, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 169

Re: gnome issue?

try edit /etc/inittab
enable boot to X11

# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:

then use GDM as your login manager

# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

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04gto

Member

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 8

Re: gnome issue?

FIX: had to install gdm, and run gnome that way