FC3 - no desktop

[Howard Gibson]

On Thu, 19 May 2005 11:29:36 -0400 (EDT)
Anthony Alex <magalex-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have freshly installed FC3,  I am running into 2 problems :
>  
> 1)  After logging-in in the GUI style I just get a blank desktop with a terminal window open with not menu's at all.  What am I doing wrong here for this to happen ?  
>  
> 2)  Telnet is not working.  I have installed telnet-server on this box but cannot telnet from another machine.  Locally I can telnet to localhost and also to the IP number of the box. Possibly it could be the firewall but I don't have enough knowledge to figure this out. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>  
> tia

Alex,

   From the login window, take a look at your session.  What you did was launch the X_Window System without a window manager.  You want Gnome or KDE.  If you are adventurous, you can try ICEwm, or FVWM or TWM.  You may have to install some of these.

   I cannot remember how you launch X11 by itself.  I would guess you selected "default", or something like that.

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