From: Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: What window manager?
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:36:15 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.99999.0803061732310.8759@iinet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CE73D4.1040800@baechler.net>
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, I definitely have Gnome installed. I looked at the pkg desc for gdm
> and still don't know why I'm supposed to remove it. As soon as I tell
Well you don't have too. Its just easier to log into a console than an x
session from boot-up.
startx won't ask you for anything like gdm.
But ok whatever.
> aptitude to remove it, I get a bunch of errors about broken packages. I
> ran tasksel several times to install the desktop task like you said and
> it just sat there at 0% even after waiting a long time. I have a fast
> connection so I'm sure it wasn't downloading packages. I'm now positive
> that I have all of Gnome installed. I ran startx and it still just
> drops me on tty7 with no speech and no Orca. I'm sure I have gdm
> removed even though it complained about gnome being broken. It still
> wants to know what window manager to use and I don't think gnome itself
Well since I don't use grml I don't know.
Perhaps just apt-get remove gnome and start again?
I don't know though.
You can just try gdm if you like.
And log in.
Otherwise you can look and see what errors startx gives.
Oh and for tasksel as root I guess you type:
tasksel install desktop
--
Daniel Dalton
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
d.dalton@iinet.net.au
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