Gnome

Gnome is a window manager and much more. X merely provides the windows but very little in services on top. To find out more about Gnome, go to www.gnome.org.

Installing Gnome

You can install the individual parts of Gnome, but I chose to set up higher-level packages that include the basic Gnome stuff. I will list them here, and underneath any extra packages that I chose to install after being prompted by dselect. I accepted all of the recommended/required packages.

I installed the following packages:

• gnome-intro
• sawmill-gnome
  • libesd0
  • esound
  • gnome-core
  • gnome-audio
  • xscreen-saver-gnome
  • bzip2
• gdm
  • gnome-help-data
  • html2ps
• gnome-terminal
• gnome-think
• multi-gnome-terminal
• power-applet

Allowing root login

By default, when Gnome is installed, the root user cannot log in as a securtity measure. I don't really want this, so I edited the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file so that AllowRoot was set to true. You may find life easier if you install the nedit package now that you have a window manager.