kde / gnome... boring

[Pau]

But X is working

I'm not saying I don't believe you, I just would like to understand the reason



2008/9/19 Fredrik Ludl <ludl1 at hotmail.com>:
> I was in the same mess, and the first problem was configure X right.
> Start there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org] On Behalf Of Pau
> Sent: den 19 september 2008 10:11
> To: OpenBSD-Newbie
> Subject: kde / gnome... boring
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry to have to ask these quesitons, but this is a bit of a pain.
>
> I have installed obsd 4.3 on a laptop for my wife. Everything fine. Easy.
>
> Now, she doesn't want to learn the basics of fvwm or another
> light-weight wm. She started in a w$ world, and later from a
> linux-kde-gnome world.
>
> Ok, I decided to install the monster. I tried gnome. I installed gdm,
> everything fine... BUT, when she logs in, the wm is screwed up.
> There's only a terminal on a blue (haha) background without even
> window decoration. Alt + mouse does not drag the window. There's
> nothing. No gnome. No fancy menus, no nothing. Just a terminal.
>
> When she logs in choosing "fail safe gnome session" (or similar) from
> gdm, gnome protests "some scripts will not work blabla", but gnome is
> there (some icons are screwed up but it works)
>
> I found this irritating. I decided to give kde a try.
>
> Result? Exactly the same, different background color (I think).
>
> The problem seems to be unrelated to kde/gnome...
>
> I have installed every package, this is not a missing library or
> programme, applet, application, thingamabob.
>
> I followed
>
> www.openbsdsupport.org/gnome-GDM.html
>
> and
>
> www.openbsdsupport.org/KDM.html
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks
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