Debian menu bar not visible

[praveen_khm]

Hi friends,

am new to this Linux world and a full time windows user. Now planning for a switch over and installed Debian into my PC as a parallel OS with windows.

However, am facing the following problems after installing the os.
1. The menu bar is not visible, nor the application bar. I use Gnome and have attached a screen shot of what I see when logged in.
2. I am not able to play any movie files as it says that there are no drivers for that.
3. I do not see anything through which I can see the applications installed.
4. I am not able to access any drives of windows through this. It says access denied.
5. How do I log in as a root user?

I have used Puppy Linux before this and it was simplistic. Please help.

Thanks in advance,
Praveen

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Press Alt+F2 and type terminal. Terminal window will pop up.
Execute this

gnome-panel

Post exact error message here, if any.

Post the output of this too :

df -h
su -
fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

root login is disable in Debian but you can gain root privileges through su - command.

[praveen_khm]

Thanks a lot for your quick response 'devils casper'. I will try this and then let all know if any error occurs.

Cheers,
Praveen

[praveen_khm]

Hey devils casper and all,

I tried using Alt+F2. More expected, it did not do anything.
Is there any better way to call the application where I can type these scripts?

I know it might be easy, but am not able to find any.

[devils casper]

Press Alt+Ctrl+Backspace. Does it restart X Server and drop you at Login Screen?

Press Alt+Ctrl+F3. It will drop you at tty3, command line prompt.
Execute this

su -
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
exit
exit

Press Alt+Ctrl+F7.