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I've just installed Arch Linux and installed the gnome package (Note: Not gnome-extra)
I open Gnome using the xinit gnome-session command, as I have already installed X Window.
When I run that command, Gnome opens up and I'm presented with a white terminal titled "login". However, nothing I do in this terminal actually does anything. No commands work, nothing.
Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? There have been a few questions around similar to this, however none that have been properly answered.
Thank you!
After installing gnome session you need to append
exec gnome-sssion
at the end of your .xinitrc file located at your home.
when you get the login: prompt enter your username and then your password.
Once you're logged in type startx to start gnome session
Solved! I hadn't set Gnome to startup automatically, so when you login to Arch Linux using your standard root login. Check that gnome is installed and works (Use: xinit gnome-session).
Create an account by going to Settings, Users, Create the account as Administrator. Logout of Gnome Log back in as root to your Arch Linux CLI Use the command: systemctl enable gdm The next time you reboot, you should be presented with the Gnome Login screen.
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I've ran into a problem when trying to use an installed Linux bash shell instead of my Windows command prompt. I can't get my computer files to show on my Ubuntu terminal, even though when I repeat the same actions on my windows command prompt they seem to work.
I'm thinking there must be an issue with my installation, possibly I need to do a few more steps to get it to work like my regular command prompt terminal, but I'm not sure how to do this currently. I've added some screenshots above for additional context of me not finding my files in Ubuntu but being able to find them through windows command prompt.
It's because your linux home directory is most likely located outside of your windows user's home directory.
Use windows search to look for one of your ubuntu files (for example git_101) to determine where is your ubuntu home directory in relation to windows file system.
This can vary depending on how you installed ubuntu, but you might be able to access your windows filesystem via the /mnt directory as well. You can check that by running ls -lah /mnt.
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I have remote server running under CentOS 7, usually it's enough to operate using SSH CLI - but sometimes I need a graphic access, so I installed Gnome Desktop there too.
But how to stop or start Gnome Desktop ? Especially because gnome-shell eats CPU when I don't need Gnome.
It seems strange but 3 pages of Google search did not help.
I'm afraid there are no a simple solution here like
service gnome stop | start
So thanks in advance for any hint or howto !
But the solution was simple.
First of all - check if you GDM service is running.
service gdm status
If not - start it to make active.
(my case service gdm was loaded but inactive and it causes a confusing)
After that I just stopped gdm service
service gdm stop
and checked any Gnome processes
ps aux | grep gnome
an output is empty, Gnome desktop gone until started again by
service gdm start
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I am using a X2GO client on a Windows 7 (64-bit) laptop in order to login to a remote machine running Fedora 20. However, when I try to connect choosing KDE as a session type, I get a "cannot execute startkde" error.
Is there something I need to configure on my laptop or Fedora machine?
This worked for an ubuntu server but may work for fedora/centos. In the session preferences tab of the x2go client, change the "session type" to XFCE
At this point I'm almost sure the OP has already fixed the issue or just tried another DE. Anyways, just for the record, for other people that may come across this error, this is my experience and how I solved it.
In my case the problem was that the version of KDE I was using didn't have a startkde command, at all. Apparently, newer versions of KDE use startplasma-x11 (or startplasma-wayland) instead.
In X2GO, I selected "Custom desktop environment" (or something like that, I'm using another language), then pasted the startplasma-x11 command in the field. It worked after that.
To check if that's also your problem, try to SSH to the machine, write which startkde and, if it fails, then try which startplasma-x11 and it should return a path. If it does, then you just follow the steps above and it should work.
Running sudo yum install #kde on the remote machine resolved the issue. I was now able to login to the remote machine using X2GO client.
If the command is not setup up properly in the available PATH,:
then the error like
"Cannot run 'startkde' occours
Please check that the requested application is in the system PATH and that you have the rights to execute it."
you need to login to the super user mode by pressing
ctrl + alt + f1
Whether the PATH is set or not can be checked by executing
which startkde
or more generally, 'echo $PATH'
The correct path must be set in /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login, depending on the shell the user is using.
And now when you try to log in from windows desktop after doing all this if error again appears Cannot run ‘startkde’. …
make sure you have the appropriate credentials to access .
on ubuntu I had to install XFCE, then select that in the windows client and then it worked.
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I searched everywhere but not able to fix my problem. Can someone please help me?
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I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as host OS.
I installed Oracle VirtualBox on it
Then I installed CentOS 6.6 as guest OS inside VirtualBox.
I was using it daily with no issues. Suddenly one day I saw a message that "Configuration defaults for gnome power manager has not been installed correctly", then I get login screen and after login nothing is displayed inside the VM window.
I used the gparted-live-0.22.0-2-i586.iso to go to its command prompt and there I used fdisk /dev/sda command to resize the partition.
Even after that I am not able to resolve the GNOME error and not able to login to centos inside virtualbox.
Can someone please help? Let me know if you need additional information.
At login prompt, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, this brings you to tty2, a text window. (You can try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to satisify your curiosity).
Login as root user.
yum remove gnome-power-manager
yum install gnome-power-manager
reboot
I tried it on my system it works. One more thing, while installing gnome-power-manager if it shows some error regarding space issues just free some space for this installation
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I'm using Gnome now and want to install XFCE. Nothing complicated but just curious - do all applications, installed previously on Gnome will be also removed or they would work on XFCE properly after installing XFCE and removing Gnome ?
OS: Linux Mint 7
Don't uninstall Gnome, just select XFCE in the graphical login screen
You might lose functionality in any desktop widgets that were using Gnome, but in general, all of your application using GTK should not in any way be affected by what desktop environment you are using.
At least under Ubuntu, I am fairly sure that uninstalling Gnome should only affect the desktop environment, it should not remove any applications that are not explicitly tied to the Gnome desktop.
Installing XFCE is easy : as root, run:
yum groupinstall XFCE
In my experience, all gnome applications will work with XFCE. However, you should make sure that XFCE launches the appropriate services for these at startup. Navigate to Menu –> Settings –> Sessions & Startup. On the “Advanced” tab, select the appropriate checkbox.
There is no need to uninstall GNOME. The login screen will allow you to select one or the other.