Re: Window Maker and KDE

[Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <harsh@ee.byu.edu>]

James Bemis wrote:
> Hi "Harsh" - thanks for responding.
>
> I used apt and synaptic during first install. But when I logged on, 
> software to me to kdm and I didn't see how to get back to using 
> synaptic-wmaker.  Did something that said already had another Window 
> Manager loaded, and didn't know how to unload it (temporarily). Will 
> install KDE on this motherboard now and see what I see.  I still don't 
> have a functional printer or zip drive, so I may be back with more 
> question. (For example, I downloaded two files from netscape and Iomega 
> internet sites (got a tar and tar.gz), but I don't know how to do the 
> install, and/or where to put the files for use by all users (which is 
> just me).

Atleast for the zip drive, I know that you can install a package called 
'jazip' ("apt-get install jazip"). This is a nice Graphical tool which 
lets you mount and access your zip drives in a convenient fashion. That 
should do it.

I prefer having just KDE installed with GNOME for backup. But I have 
never really extensively used WindowMaker. My suggestion is not to 
install window-maker at all since that reduces any area where you might 
get error messages from, which is usually a good thing.

I hope you have much better luck with the new install!

--
Harsh
BYU EE Sysop