On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:56:51PM -0300, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote:
> I am a little novice in Linux and Debian.
>
> Before I was using Mandrake that setup much in a "microsoft-way".
>
> Someone told me to never use tasksel. Use apt-get instead.
They were being silly. If you're new to Debian, and you don't know all
the bits and pieces that you need, then tasksel is a great way to
install big piles of packages. As you learn more, you'll probably stop
using it completely, though.
> Well I tried the following:
>
> apt-get install x-window-system-core
> apt-get install gnome-session gnome-control-center gnome-panel
Looks reasonable. Except you don't have a window manager. Gnome likes
sawfish or metacity the most, so install one of them.
> Unless I install gdm, x-window don't even start as Kent West told me because
> there are no x-client running.
Well, yeah, again this is because you have no WM installed. Install
one, and it'll become the default, and 'startx' should magically work.
> if I install gdm, X starts at boot, but I run in following
>
> 1. I can't logon as root
That's a feature, not a bug. If you need to do something as root inside
X (which is rare), you can use 'sudo' or 'sux'.
> 2. I have no idea how-to configure shell prompt boot again
ctrl-alt-f{1,2,3,4,5,6} will give you access to the six running vt's.
Or you can purge gdm to get rid of it forever. Or you can run
'/etc/init.d/gdm stop' to stop it for a while.
> 3. Gnome complains that I not running a compatible windowm manager - which I
> haven't even configured
You need to install one, I suppose. As above.
> My question is:
>
> Is there any document that talks about Debian and X configuration?
Hm, not to my knowledge. It's pretty much the same across distros,
though, except that other's probably hide it better. Reading this list
will give you an amazing education in all things Debian, though.
> A second question is: Debian doesn't use linuxconf?
No. Does anyone? Last time I tried it, it was buggy as all hell, and
corrupted some config files.
That said, it seems to be available in Debian, so you could certainly
use it if you felt the urge. As someone else said, though, you're much
better off learning how to edit the config files by hand; nearly all the
ones in Debian are well commented enough that you can play with them
with very little knowledge :-)
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