Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
Hi John
I think Seth is right, probably the easiest solution to your colour problem
will be to get a new video-card. I've had much succes using an old Tseng
ET4000-based card in my slightly archaic 486/100. Gives me up to 1024x768
and plenty colors, with no troubles whatsoever. These cards are available
very cheap or free, and very easy to configure (I'm a newbie too...), as
they used to be very common.
Good Luck
Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
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> Fra: Seth R Arnold [SMTP:sarnold@willamette.edu]
> Sendt: 26. august 1999 06:39
> Til: John Gay; debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Emne: Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
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> (I reformatted this to use 76 chars.. if you are in an xterm, I suggest
> you
> check to make sure it is 80 columns wide -- if using netscape or similar,
> please make the window smaller. :)
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote:
> > E's website, but I take anything with a grain of salt. I'm interested in
> > trying E, and was just looking for any experiences, good and bad with E.
> I
> > was also hoping this would provide a simpler GUI for my ten year old
>
> I have never gotten E to work -- but that was with other distributions, I
> haven't tried debian's E yet. I think it would work much nicer under
> debian
> than the others, else it would never make it into stable. :)
>
> As for ease of use .. it doesn't seem nearly as easy as kwm under kde.
> *That* is pretty simple, as well as similar enough to windows so that your
> doughter will only feel revolted using windows, not completely clueless.
> :)
>
> However, kids being what they are these days, I do imagine E will give her
> no troubles, and she will probably soon be teaching you how to use it more
> efficiently. :)
>
> > these yet. How would you rate E in relation to these? 7: At the moment,
> > my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to
> reduce
> > any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with
> > lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not
> > enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as
> the
> > two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use
> > the same colours?
>
> As for the color-depth problem... the window manager does not have any say
> in what colors applications can use. E will probably make the situation
> WORSE since to look good it requires many colors -- and you haven't athat
> many to go around. If it runs high resolution, you can drop the resolution
> down to get more colors, or (if your card just won't do it..) get a new
> video card. Checking your local .forsale newsgroup might find someone who
> wants to part with their video card to upgrade.. If her machine has an AGP
> slot, it wouldn't be too hard to find a nicer new video card for cheap --
> if
> it is PCI, used might be the way to go.. and if it is ISA-only system,
> maybe
> someone out there can help.. :)
>
> If the machine is a bit on the slow side, E might not be such a good idea
> either -- I have heard it takes many CPU cycles to remain happy.
>
> If this is the case, you may want to check out blackbox. (I think it is
> blackbox.fwiw.com -- themes.org has a section devoted to it..) blackbox
> runs
> quick, very little resources are needed, and it is still intuitive. You do
> give up icons, but .. not that big a loss if the video card doesn't have
> enough memory for higher resolutions.
>
> HTH :)
>
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