On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +0000, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > * Window/Desktop System * > I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change > to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with > apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to put in my > sources.list? (I don't have CDs yet, just a cable connection.) In the > meanwhile: how does one close windows in twn? Try some window managers, they are better than twm and smaller and more lightweight than KDE or GNOME. Good ones to try are: windowmaker icewm fvwm > * Printing/CUPS * > I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web > interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the > applications. It's an HP DeskJet on the parallell port. What am I missing? I recommend installing cupsys-client, if you have just one printer. Then every program that simply pipes postscript to lpr will work out of the box. An alternative is to tell the application to print to a file and then run lp file.ps or whatever. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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