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#1 2008-04-30 22:40:21
- elephantos
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crazy first gnome session - panels/drawing problems [SOLVED]
I was following the Beginner's guide almost religiously apart from Xorg config (I have an Intel 950 GM on lenovo thinkpad r60e, i use the intel driver, not i810), where I did my best to configure conservatively. installed gnome, then as root:
$ startx
i got three shell windows
$ gnome-session
and get the following:
every time a new window opens, i see its 'boundaries' first which hover with the pointer and then have to click to show it. as you can see, all the windows have panels displaying.
couple other things, I cannot find an xsession-errors file. if it exists, where would it be?
apologies for not being a code monkey. should i post my xorg.conf?
Last edited by elephantos (2008-06-14 06:58:45)
Thinkpad T500 | Core2Duo P8700 2.53GHz | 3G RAM | x86_64
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#2 2008-04-30 23:03:34
- tigrmesh
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Re: crazy first gnome session - panels/drawing problems [SOLVED]
Wow that looks bad. The .xsession-errors file is in your home directory.
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#3 2008-05-01 16:26:31
- alex_anthony
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Re: crazy first gnome session - panels/drawing problems [SOLVED]
whats in your .xinitrc?
try putting exec gnome-session in there then starting X
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#4 2008-05-01 16:53:20
- _Marco_
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Re: crazy first gnome session - panels/drawing problems [SOLVED]
please try to load gnome running "gdm" as root
are you sure you aren't out of space on the disk ? (that files not found look weird)
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#5 2008-05-01 21:09:48
- elephantos
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Re: crazy first gnome session - panels/drawing problems [SOLVED]
logging in through gdm as regular user fixed it, thanks!
although, i prefer logging in through a shell rather than graphical.
Thinkpad T500 | Core2Duo P8700 2.53GHz | 3G RAM | x86_64
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#6 2008-05-01 23:58:58
- Misfit138
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Re: crazy first gnome session - panels/drawing problems [SOLVED]
The behavior is perfectly expected.
You did 'startx' as root. Root has no .xinitrc by default, so startx called xinit and xinit looked for /root/.xinitrc. Not finding it, xinit resorted to using /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. If you study /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, you will notice that it calls twm. So you opened a twm session, which has 3 terminals open by default, and then tried starting GNOME on top of twm, which worked out kind of half twm, half-GNOMISH.
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