Re: X-Window Configuration
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote:
> I had some difficulties starting the X-server, but now I just do not know
> where to start with installing windowmanager. I am interested in using
> GNOME.
> Could any one of you point out where I can start reading.
If you use dselect, search for the task-gnome packages. If not, apt-get
install task-gnome-desktop (I think that's the right task...)
You might want try out Helix GNOME by adding this to you
/etc/apt/sources.list (see http://www.helixcode.com/):
## Helix GNOME
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
Then install task-helix-gnome which should depend on all the gnome stuff...
Note that installing these tasks installs *a lot* of stuff. You could
individually install the packages you want, but the tasks are a good start.
After installing, putting "gnome-session &" from your $HOME/.xsession and then
running "startx" should start GNOME.
> BTW: Where can I get information about the Linux-filesystem?
What kind of info? i.e. Developer or user? If you are new to Linux, you
might want to read the Debian Tutortial
<http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html> and the Debian Guide
<http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/noframes/>. They both contain info
about basic file commands.
>
> Stephan
>
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