From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta11.charter.net ([216.33.127.80]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JWYDk-0004h6-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:34:20 -0500 Received: from aarprv04.charter.net ([10.20.200.74]) by mta11.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080304143347.BJDL5653.mta11.charter.net@aarprv04.charter.net> for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:33:47 -0500 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net ([24.151.121.233]) by aarprv04.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080304143347.ZQEV17353.aarprv04.charter.net@h14me.homelinux.net> for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:33:47 -0500 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m24EXhjH004466 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:33:44 -0500 Received: (from alex_snow@localhost) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.13.4/8.12.10/Submit) id m24EXh3M004465 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:33:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:33:43 -0500 From: Alex Snow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: What window manager? Message-ID: <20080304143343.GA4423@gmx.net> References: <47CD1EFC.8090302@baechler.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47CD1EFC.8090302@baechler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on h14me.homelinux.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Chzlrs: 0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:34:20 -0000 running gnome from a live cd is going to be a bit painful, unless you have a really fast cd-rom (at least 48x) and a reasonably fast processor. On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:05:48AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm totally new to X and I have no idea what I'm doing. I am running > grml 1.1rc1 and a 1.70 GHZ processor with 256 MB of RAM. I did > "aptitude install gnome-orca" and it installed a bunch of things. I ran > the Orca setup and it talked. What else do I need to do to start Gnome > with speech? There is no program called gnome on my system. I tried > "startx" but it just sits there and puts me on tty7 with no text. I > tried grml-x to set up X and it wants to know what window manager to > use. I tried putting in gnome but it couldn't find it. I finally > randomly picked fluxbox but nothing. I tried again with openbox but > still nothing. What do I need to do? What else do I need to install? > What window manager should I use? If there's a web page somewhere I > should be reading, please point me to it. I can run startx and it shows > a bunch of startup messages with some warnings but that's it except > switching me to tty7. I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do. If I > just run orca by itself after I run startx, I get an error that the > display environment is not set. Any help is appreciated. Does it > matter what window manager I pick? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Convention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza." Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza". [1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government licence to sell liquor. -- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University