No GUI--only console and xclock.

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:07:20AM +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
>    Hello,
>             My Fedora 7 is not giving a GUI.

Yes it is. Just not the one you expected.

>    I just get a terminal and an xclock.While installation i had
>    selected the KDE desktop.On clicking on the desktop i get a list
>    which says

>    Iconify
>    Resize
>    move
>    Raise
>    Lower
>    Xterm
>    Delete
>    etc....

What you have is TWM, the minimal window manager that comes with
X. It's very nice for lean machines.

"yum install switchdesk-gui" should give you a graphical way to switch
to KDE.

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