Re: my dell runs
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:52:58AM -0700, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote:
> --- Matthias Weiss <matthias.we@gmx.at> wrote:
> > The simple solution was: I had no window manager installed 8-()
> > Further I had to disable gpm mouse service otherwise I couldn't use
> > the mouse under X.
>
> Same thing happened to me last week when I installed Potato/Woody on a
> TP 755 Cs. I'm sure there must be good reasons, but it's strange that
> no window manager is required with the core X packages.
Not really. You could run a box as an X terminal, and run the window
manager on a remote machine, especially if you use something like XDMCP.
(X -indirect hostname). Of course, I don't think having lwm installed (62kB
installed size) would kill anyone :)
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Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)
"The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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