Re: debian and gnopernicus

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Jude:

Don't use twm or icewm as window managers - for best results you'll want
to install and run the Gnome desktop env which includes the metacity
window manager.  Starting "gnome-session" after startx may work for
you.  

regards

Bill

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 01:00, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> So far earlier today I had a non-graphical system as a base line.  After 
> having done aptitude update and aptitude upgrade and installing all 
> upgrades I decided to try installing xserver-xorg and gnopernicus to see 
> if they'll play nicely together.  So, aptitude install xserver-xorg 
> --with-recommends then aptitude install gnopernicus --with-recommends got 
> me a few megs worth of files installed.  Upon rebooting I noticed speakup 
> still comes up and whatever x environment may or may not be functional on 
> this system did not attempt to start and fail.  Much nicer than installing 
> debian desktop from tasksel.  Some other notes I chose isa:1 for monitor 
> type and told the system to talk to the monitor for further information 
> and not use the frame buffer to get its information.  This is a pretty 
> modern monitor and definitely not an rgb model either.  So before I try 
> running startx and then running gnopernicus -s to see if the X environment 
> wants to talk is there anything else I neglected to do?  The sound card is 
> functional and plays podcasts fine and I ran alsa-conf and alsactl store 
> against it earlier too.  I've heard twm is a disaster and don't know if 
> that is installed or not and can get icewm for this system too if it would 
> work better for this level of accessibility.
> 
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