Gnopernicus and Slackware 9.1.

[Gregory Nowak]

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Ok. Besides installing the gnome stuff, you also did install the x
series from the first cd too, right?

Then, you did run xf86config to configure x for your system, right?

As for the .xinitrc file in your home directory, I never did that, and
things still work fine for me. But, I've seen others on here recommend
doing that, so it can't hurt.

While alt+f2 is the correct key combination to open the run dialogue,
and while you claim you see gnome stuff at startup, how do you
actually know your typing startx is launching gnome, and not kde? After you
type startx, and your drive spins for a bit, you should hear a beep
from your pc speaker, indicating that gnome is ready for you to
login. If you don't hear the beep, then either you are not actually
running gnome, or gnome isn't starting properly.

Check if you have a file called /opt/kde/bin/kdm, and if you do, take
away its execute permissions by doing

chmod -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm

. Now, you  should be starting gnome for sure. Once you get the beep
from gnome described above, login by typing your user name, followed
by enter, followed by your password, followed by enter. If all goes
well, your drive will spin for a bit. After it stops spinning, do the
alt+f2 command, and type gnopernicus, followed by enter. You should
hopefully now get speech. Hth.

Greg


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:26:34PM +0400, Sergei Fleytin wrote:
> Hi, again.
> 
> Just an idea. To start gnopernicus i am using alt+f2 keys. But at the
> moment i don't have any sighted person around to look and see if this
> combination works. So i'd better explain how i set up gnome. After
> installing all gnome packages from the second Slackware CD i copied to
> my home directory the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome file as ~/.xinitrc.
> After running the 'startx' command i see a lot of gnome related stuff
> in my home directory so i can conclude that at least i have gnome up
> and running. But i don't know where can i look for all key
> combinations available in gnome. 
> 
> Thank you all for your patience, 
> 
> Sergei.
>  
> 

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