I'm getting negligible use out of what ought to be my main machine, because I can't get it to display a Gnome desktop; and KDE with Gnome Panels and Gnome apps just gives me dangerous blood pressure. (It's fine for them as likes it, no doubt, but it's like some other GUIs -- every time I touch it, I dislike it more, alas!) This machine was doing perfectly fine with FC4. In fact, it did fine with FC5 -- at first. Then I went and tried out pup and pirut, and must have uninstalled something I shouldn't have -- and can't find again. I know it must be my fault, because all three other machines in the house went happily on running FC5 just fine; but I can't seem to find the fault. I've tried you install gnome*, yum install gnome-*, yum install gtk*, and yum install gtk-* -- and gotten lots of stuff, but not my desktop back. When I click on Session on the login screen, and then on Gnome, and log in, it shows the little thing that tells you what it's bringing up -- and when it gets to about the third, the whole screen goes blank -- solid dark blue, no anything. After a few minutes, apparently the screensaver thinks it's working -- at least, if I KVM back to it, it demands my password. (God, I hate that.) I give it, and it goes back to the dull blue screen. So I tried taking a testbed machine from FC5 back to FC4 -- and ran into a hassle royal. I got it, eventually, but I'm still missing some of my configurations. So is there a yum downgrade command, or any other relatively straightforward way to get back to something I can use?? Yum remove gnome followed by yum install gnome, maybe?? (I *think* I tried that ...) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler, Neo- Redneck Retiree, Not Quite Clueless FC Power User
