gnome GUI does not start

[beard3dgeek]

Hi all,

I have installed ubuntu server on my machine, I then installed gnome gui ontop of this. however when i try to start the GUI all I get is the background image. no menus/option (like it normally looks) can any one help on what i might be doing wrong.

sorry if this doesnt make sense, i tried to explain it as much as i could. Please let me know if you need more info

[ibjsb4]

What command did you use to install?

[mcduck]

+1 to above, and also how are you starting the GUI? Are you using some display manager? If yes, which one?

[beard3dgeek]

What command did you use to install?

I used aptitude to install it

aptitude installe gnome

i then install xrdp so that i can remote onto the machine. otherwise i used to run the command

starx

I now get a message saying

Nautilus could not create the required folder "/home/geek/.config/nautilus

when i checked the permissions for the file its owned by root, is this correct ??

[mcduck]

No, the permissions are definitely wrong. Everything in your own home directory should be owned by you.

Run this to recursively change ownership of your home directory & everything within, and then try starting the desktop again:

sudo chown -R geek:geek /home/geek

[ibjsb4]

aptitude installe gnome

That is not a valid command and will not install anything.

What are you trying to install? And is this 12.04 or 12.10?

Edit: McDuck has you covered, good luck

[beard3dgeek]

aptitude installe gnome

That is not a valid command and will not install anything.

What are you trying to install? And is this 12.04 or 12.10?

Edit: McDuck has you covered, good luck

sorry my bad ... spelling mistake this is what I ran

sudo aptitude install gnome

mcduck, I tried that. All im getting is the desktop background. any ideas ?

[ibjsb4]

sorry my bad ... spelling mistake this is what I ran

sudo aptitude install gnome

Still an invalid command.

Gnome is not correct.

[mcduck]

Have you configured your .xinitrc file to actually load Gnome? I believe you need to do that since you aren't using any display manager to define which session to load.

[beard3dgeek]

Still an invalid command.

Gnome is not correct.

sorry i just checked my history ... i did gnome-shell