blank desktop after fresh install

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Fri Feb 15 08:15:59 UTC 2008


On Friday 15 February 2008 01:41:19 Jim Cornette wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   (i apologize for coming late to the party, but i'm just getting
> > around to test installing f9-alpha so i might need a few dumb
> > questions to catch up.)
> >
> >   from a fresh install yesterday (and selecting pretty much all the
> > defaults as a start), when the system came back up, i logged in as
> > "guest" but got only a blank desktop.  totally blank.
> >
> >   i checked bugzilla (i'm assuming fedora "rawhide" version) and
> > searched on "blank desktop" but nothing came up.  has this been BZed?
> > what would have been a better search criteria?  thanks.
> >
> > rday
> > --
>
> Blank as in no Icons, panels, menus or blank as in no illumination?
> Gnome came up once with just the background but came up correctly ever
> since.
>
> Jim

Blank as in no Icons, panels, menus, just the default background. I'm just 
doing a re-install now so I'll check it again.

Tony




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