there is a simple and clear procedure for setting up a GNOME Desktop on a BeagleBone (white) with the latest Angstrom distro
Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-GNOME-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-beaglebone-2013.06.20.img.xz ?
I would to use my BeagleBone (white) without a LCD cape or other physical video Out but with only vnc server (x11vnc) for remote connection to it from my Linux PC