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Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?



On Thursday 28 September 2017 16:38:45 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 September 2017 17:57:59 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > And again, all the best.
> >
> > Thank you Andy. But something has changed here on this wheezy box,
> > and the xfce4 default terminal, terminal-0.4.8 has suddenly become a
> > disappearing act, so I'm now trying Konsole from my TDE install.
> > None of the other terminals have the features I need, like tabs.
> >
> > However it seems I still have locale problems.
> >
> > >From the rock64's sshd session:
> >
> > rock64@rock64:~$ sudo -i
> > [sudo] password for rock64:
> > root@rock64:~# tasksel install LXDE
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >         LANGUAGE = (unset),
> >         LC_ALL = (unset),
> >         LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> >     are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> > root@rock64:~#
> >
> > And it did not do anything.
>
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
>
> as root.
>
> the -plow stands for Priority Low - so it asks you all the questions,
> just like in an expert install.
>
> Again as root
>
> tasksel
>
> Just run the command, wait, then you get a curses style  interface
>
Ahh, nice, I ran it from the command line and had to copy/paste from its 
menu file. But I'm suddenly have a heck of a time with xfce4's terminal, 
so I went with "lxde-desktop"

> Select something then toggle the selection with space bar then tab to
> OK.
>
> So
>
> tasksel
>
> Select XFCE then tab to OK and hit enter
>
> That would install XFCE.
> Debian desktop on its own will, by default, install GNOME which is
> probably too big.
>
For a 64GB sdcard? On a 4GB rockchip? But I need to get a heatsink, 
running x is warming it up a bit. I was thinking if I was going for the 
full monty, maybe TDE, a fork of KDE-3.5, with a thousand or so bugs 
fixed.  Works right nice on this machine. :)

> Hope this helps,
>
> Andy C.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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