[PLUG] Debian - GNOME seems to have disappeared ...

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Running Debian unstable. I usually run KDE, from the command line (i.e.,
from startx, not from some GUI display manager). Anyway, tonight I
decided to go into GNOME instead, so I changed my exec line in .xsession
to read "exec gnome-session", and I startx.

Up comes the GNOME splash screen (v2.4). Then ... nothing. Blank blue
screen. :-) Almost as if there was no WM to be executed. Not even a
mouse pointer. I have to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE out of X entirely.

Way back in the day, I know you could kick up the GNOME Control Center
by executing "gnomecc", and choose a WM there, but apparently that
doesn't exist anymore. 

Pointers, anyone? While I prefer KDE, I do occasionally like the GNOME
way.

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