command gdm

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Donny George <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello
>
> i try to enter the command gdm from the text mode to go to the gnome
> desktop(as i cant long in to the desktop in the normal way) but it just
> returns a warning and says gdm is already running. aborting!

Hi Donny

The typical way to go from a text login to the GUI is with 'startx'  -
that will take you straight into your GUI session.

If you want gdm (the graphical log in screen) to be running,  it
should be launched with 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start'  or 'restart'

Brian