Gnome has disaapeared in FC6 and only KDE remains.

Norm norm at workingtools.ca
Sun Nov 5 00:20:06 UTC 2006


On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:18:23 -0600
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 15:51 -0800, Norm wrote:
> > Had this happen to me when I ran Smart on a FC5 box.  Dumb move
> > Smart decided to remove every instance of Gnome and related dep.  I
> > probably could have/should have reinstalled Gnome but, in my case
> > as my Linux box is actually a test box the simplest move was to do
> > a reinstall. I have looked at the smart home site
> > (http://labix.org/smart)and can not find a reference to a gnome
> > interface but there are a couple to a kde interface.  At a guess I
> > would say that Smart is not intended to work with gnome.
> >  On Sat, 04 Nov
> > 2006 17:33:13 -0600 Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > My experience with FC6 is getting worse and worse. I had the
> > > machine coming up in GNOMe. The system offer end me some updates
> > > some of which I chose.
> > > 
> > > Now the machine comes up In KDE. Neither the Sessions option not
> > > the Deskswitcher Tool will allow me to choose GNOME as my
> > > desktop. What do I do now?
> > 
> Except I did not sun smart and I can still see the GNOME. A key
> question is where is  DISPLAYMANAGER used in  /etc/X!!/prefdm set
am at sbcglobal.net
> 
My guess is something similar happened to you,  If your heart is set on
running Gnome try reinstalling several key pieces of Gnome and see if
they show up.




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