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crunchy

#! Junkie

From: Juneau, AK, USA

Registered: 2010-08-19

Posts: 461

Re: gnome login

yes I believe that you could. that is what I have been doing with KDE for the past 2 days or so.

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ms4sman

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 40

Re: gnome login

Thank you so very much!  I think i will try that!  Thanks you to everyone on this whole thread for all of your help!

jvd

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2010-01-29

Posts: 193

Re: gnome login

When installing, would recommend to check what packages are drawn in. Hint: You probably want as little as possible. Also try adding the --no-install-recommends flag to your apt-get command. Don't know if that has a counterpart in synaptic. And, to see what would happen with an install you can simulate it by using the -s flag. Then you are sure you don't make any changes to your system, and just can review what will happen.

And: the gnome package probably is a symbolic link to a collection of real packages. You might want to try out to install some individual packages to see if that already makes your gnome work.

tl;dr:

sudo apt-get install -s --no-install-recommends gnome-panel compiz

Did not test this command, but should at least get you started. Enjoy!

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 3,257

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Re: gnome login

Also try adding the --no-install-recommends flag to your apt-get command. Don't know if that has a counterpart in synaptic.

Settings > Preferences > uncheck "Consider recommended packages as dependencies"
(It will probably be rechecked every time you start up Synaptic though.)

Last edited by johnraff (2011-03-27 16:08:19)

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ms4sman

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 40

Re: gnome login

sorry to reopen an old thread but i thought of something else.  one i have  a persistent usb that i run cb on.  where will gnome be installed?  persistence or to the main drive?  also how do i tell cb that i want gnome?  just choose gnome session at login?  thanks!

ms4sman

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 40

Re: gnome login

Anyone?

pvsage

Internal Affairs

From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 13,265

Re: gnome login

I'm pretty sure it would be in the persistence partition, and that you'd choose Gnome at the GDM login.

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