• Openbox, is now gnome...
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Well something odd happened today. I went to reboot my machine for no particular reason using sudo reboot and for some reason, when it came back, it was no longer openbox. But gnome. ubuntu. I didn't know I even had gnome! This computer was a CLI of ubuntu and then I put openbox on. Any clue how this happened? I can't even get to terminal. So I'm not sure what to do... I was planning on doing a CLI of debian pretty soon anyways, but I need to atleast get to terminal so I can back up my sources.list and menu.xml and tintrc and what not, onto my server. And of course I would like to know how this happened. Because I have never installed gnome-panel, but I am looking at it right now. (I would post a screenshot but I can't use scrot without terminal, and terminal isn't showing up in applications>accessories>)
So Ctrl + Alt + F1 doesn't take you to tty1?
Let me see if I understand this... you can use a CLI, but you're instantly retarded when you're in Gnome? What kind of a computer user are you? Can you not navigate the Gnome menu to open the Terminal? I fail to understand your situation, especially without screenshots.
I don't know why it is loading gnome. There is no way for me to access terminal, because formerly when I booted into openbox, I would get to terminal via right click. But, when I force my computer to shutdown, and reboot, I don't use a login manager, I enter my username then password, and to get out of a text only envirement, I enter startx. Then it would boot into openbox. But for some reason, out of the blue, it just booted into gnome.
Check ~/.xinitrc I think.
I know the guy, I helped him install everything from the command line. He shouldn't even have Gnome installed, unless it was a dependency for something else, or he installed at another time. I don't see why it would be, and if it was, how he didn't notice it was taking an hour to install one program. At any point did you have to install ubuntu-desktop?
Nope. Before, I was gonna do a fresh install I did install a lot of programs to try different stuff out, but I never installed that. I installed some lib thing, and it took a really long time to install awn manager. but I don't see why something would install gnome without asking me. How can I atleast get to terminal? There are still a few things I need to do before I do a fresh install. [quote=PvtCupcakes] Check ~/.xinitrc I think. [/quote] I don't have that file. The .xsession-errors file does have some errors regarding x-session-manager.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;18979308]Nope. Before, I was gonna do a fresh install I did install a lot of programs to try different stuff out, but I never installed that. I installed some lib thing, and it took a really long time to install awn manager. but I don't see why something would install gnome without asking me. How can I atleast get to terminal? There are still a few things I need to do before I do a fresh install. I don't have that file. The .xsession-errors file does have some errors regarding x-session-manager.[/QUOTE] Create that file and put [code] exec openbox [/code] That should start openbox when you use startx
And then how can I remove gnome? sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop or gnome4? Same for xfce. I never know whether to install xubuntu-desktop or xfce4. lol.
Try both.
Neither worked. Also, it worked, but it looks like the autostart.sh isn't working anymore. O well. No big, I'll be doing a fresh install with debian. Is it a bad idea, to use my sources.list from ubuntu in debian? it rarely can't find software I need.
The issue with Debian is that most of the sources are terribly outdated, not that they don't have the software. Use Sid instead of Lenny, it has more up to date sources.
All I know is on arch, /etc/rc.conf edit out the gdm daemon. Try to halt gdm somewhere?
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