Re: further along running gnopernicus; progress and problems

["Thomas Ward" <slingshooter valkyrie net>]

Interesting. Thanks for the note Michael.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
To: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak chartermi net>
Cc: Thomas Ward <slingshooter valkyrie net>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: further along running gnopernicus; progress and problems


> Hi Cheryl,
>
> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 15:47, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip; I'd been using control backspace instead of
> > alt+control+backspace.
> >
> > Your comment about not turning the computer off often is well-taken,
except if
> > you can't get the keyboard to do anything you don't have a lot of
choice!!!
>
> :-) Presumably you know that C-M-F1 will get you back to the Linux
> console - which presumably is where you're happiest ?
>
> > What's this about turning festival on before you go into X? I didn't see
> > anything saying i had to do this. Once I've typed festival, how to I get
startx
> > to work in the same console? If I just type startx won't festival just
be seeing
> > this as something that doesn't make sense instead of a command to start
X?
>
> Hmm; with the latest (HEAD) gnome-speech you don't need to run festival
> first - in fact it's arguably wrong to do so;
>
> HTH,
>
> Michael.
>
> --
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
>