blank desktop after fresh install

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Tony Molloy wrote:

> 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.

you might want to just avoid that whole "guest" thing for now.  :-)

rday
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