Re: mice and x

[eric <eric.s.cote@sympatico.ca>]

Chris Tillman wrote:

> You're out of my league now; but there are 2 ways to start X, startx and gdm. 
> With gdm, you have a choice of what kind of session you want, I think. When 
> installed as part of the tasksel desktop package, I think most of this stuff 
> is taken care of for you; at least gnome starts for me automatically when 
> I start X.
>  

well, as you can tell from my earlier post, I've gotten it to work. I 
still have to work out things like my DEL and BACKSPACE keys, figure out 
how to get 3 button mouse emulation, and I'm set. I'm writing this from 
mozilla (I haven't been concentrating on getting a real (IMO) emailer to 
work... yah, GNOME gets started from within X, duh me. gnome desktop and 
so forth. Thanx for the help :-).

eric