f17 - minimal + gnome :: init 5 does not work

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/27/2012 05:03 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Ah, startx.  well I don't think it was installed as I typed in start
>> and hit the tab and nothing completed.  I have since done a
>> reinstall and figured out how to 'properly' get gnome installed.
> Did you hit tab twice?
>
> If there are multiple possible completions, bash will only complete as
> far as it can. Which means if you’ve got something like
>      $ ls /bin/start*
>      /bin/start-pulseaudio-kde  /bin/start-pulseaudio-x11  /bin/startx
> for example, then bash doesn’t know whether it should complete to startx
> or start-pulseaudio-*, so it does nothing.
>
> If you hit tab twice, bash will show all the options.
>
> Hope this helps,

Kind of what I have experienced elsewhere and realize where I messed 
up.  But I have moved on to doing a 'proper' graphical install and 
deleting lots of unneeded stuff.