Sounds like you don't actually have gnome running, but only a window manager.
Don't know much about debian's layout, but if its anything like slackware then you might need to change the link in /etc/X11/xinit/xinit which is prolly just pointing to a window manager config file. Relink it to gnome, start X, use gnome to load the window manager in gnome config.
GL
Teknoid
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1. Debian: Configuring Gnome (Chris Lale)
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:13:00 +0000 From: Chris Lale ctlale@netscape.net To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Debian: Configuring Gnome
Hello!
I have installed Gnome from the official release CDROMs but I cannot get
the standard desktop with The "foot" icon, bottom bar, panels etc. I get
a custom "debian" background, and menus that appear when I right-click the desktop. There is a workspace icon in the top right-hand corner.
Also I cannot change the window manager via Gnome control center, or find a way of adding items to the menus. I do not know whether the problem is in the window manager or the Gnome configuration.
Does anyone know how I can install a clean "standard" version of Gnome?
Regards Chris Lale
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