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Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question

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On 2016-04-05, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>         Result of my GNOME install:  I typed   'startx'  from my command line, and I
>>         got a beautiful blue screen, a delight to the eye after days of perusing tiny

I get that too (blue, it must be the default desktop watchamacallit,
with a light-grayish swirl in the middle). 



>>         characters on a black display.  And in the middle of the blue screen there was
>>         a handsome mouse arrow, which moved around elegantly when controlled by my right
>>         hand.   
>

Have you moved it elegantly to the extreme upper-left hand corner of the display?

> Progress indeed.
>  
>>         And that was _all_!!  No icons, nothing to click on . . . I typed on the keyboard,
>>         no reaction . . .   There must be some simple way to get a proper GNOME started,
>>         but since I've never used it before, I wonder if someone can give me a hint.
>
> The gnome I have has 'Activities' in the top left of the screen.
>

Right. Activities. Wonder what they mean by that. 

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Blank screen on tty (console) Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-04-01 18:40 +0200
  Re: Blank screen on tty (console) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-01 19:40 +0200
    OT: GRUB kernel options (Was: Blank screen on tty (console)) Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-02 05:40 +0200
  Re: Blank screen on tty (console) (revised) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-02 05:50 +0200
    Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-02 19:50 +0200
      Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 21:20 +0200
        Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-02 22:50 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 00:50 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 21:20 +0200
            Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-04 23:00 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 02:30 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-05 12:00 +0200
                Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-04-05 13:30 +0200
                Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-06 15:50 +0200
                Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> - 2016-04-05 16:00 +0200
      Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-04-03 10:20 +0200
        Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-03 11:00 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-04-03 11:10 +0200
            Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 12:30 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 21:30 +0200
            Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 04:30 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 06:00 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-04 06:00 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-04-04 07:40 +0200
              Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-04-04 09:20 +0200
          Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-04 17:20 +0200

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