kde / gnome... boring

[Fredrik Ludl]

I was in the same mess, and the first problem was configure X right.
Start there.

-----Original Message-----
From: openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org
[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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