What window manager?

[Rynhardt P Kruger]

Hi,

As I am using GRML and running gnome, I thought I would tell you how I have set it up for myself and some of my friends. 
Please note that some things I did may be totaly unnecisary but I did them just for incase.

First I installed gnome, like this.
apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

Then I installed orca.

apt-get install gnome-orca

I think gdm was installed when I installed gnome. It is neaded, because it runs at startup to make you login to gnome.

I also whent to /etc/X11/xsession.d and created a file called 95gnome with the following line in it:

/usr/bin/gnome-session

(I don't think this step is necisary, but I did it anyway)

When I restarted my computer, a short beep was sounded when I got to the graphical login. I type my username, press 
enter, type my password, press enter, 
and because of an error message about language en that isn't available, I press enter again.
Now alt+f2 can be pressed to get to the run dialog and to get orca working by typing orca and pressing enter.

Hope you could find an answer in the steps I took.

Take care,

Rynhardt

p.s. If someone knows how to make that language message go away, I would appreciate it!

* Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> [080305 21:02]:
> Hi,
> 
> OK, I definitely have Gnome installed.  I looked at the pkg desc for gdm 
> and still don't know why I'm supposed to remove it.  As soon as I tell 
> aptitude to remove it, I get a bunch of errors about broken packages.  I 
> ran tasksel several times to install the desktop task like you said and 
> it just sat there at 0% even after waiting a long time.  I have a fast 
> connection so I'm sure it wasn't downloading packages.  I'm now positive 
> that I have all of Gnome installed.  I ran startx and it still just 
> drops me on tty7 with no speech and no Orca.  I'm sure I have gdm 
> removed even though it complained about gnome being broken.  It still 
> wants to know what window manager to use and I don't think gnome itself 
> is a window manager.  I've created new xorg config files from scratch a 
> bunch of times and still no luck.  If I need to install something else, 
> what?  I don't mind using Google but I'm not really sure what I'm 
> looking for since I'm sure gnome is fully installed now.  It looks like 
> the window manager doesn't matter but whatever I pick doesn't work.  If 
> I look at the x11-common pkg, it looks like it installs a bunch of other 
> window managers with no explanation of what to use.  I don't mind 
> completely reinstalling everything but I'm not sure what pkgs to remove 
> other than gnome-desktop-environment.  I still need help here and I'm 
> obviously missing something.
> 
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