Re: Lots of problems - help please
Daniel Klein wrote:
Also, I fail to remember what dpgk-reconfigure I have to run to do
anything to my X Server.
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
and/or
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
It is absolutely foggy to me, why X runs KDE (I've looked around the X
config files and found no mention of KDE at all). I wanted to try
fvwm, just to see if that'd run bearably fast (we're talking Athlon TB
1200 / 512 MB RAM / very fast 200 gigs hd / Geforce 3). I have
absolutely no clue how to do that in debian.
On a user-by-user basis, you can override the system default in several
ways. The way I do it is to create the file ~/.xinitrc and put the name
of the window manager/environment I want to run. Here's a portion of my
current ~/.xinitrc file:
#sawfish
#icewm
#gnome-session
startkde
#flwm
#blackbox
I just uncomment whichever tool I want that day.
I believe you can change the system-wide default with:
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
You can update other alternatives as well; take a look in
/etc/alternatives for the different items (which are symlinks, btw).
I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of
you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain
package is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's
installed' (and I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that
would help already. There's xf86config, xf86cfg, dpkg-reconfigure
whateverIhavetotype here and the settings in KDE. This is a damn
headache, and I'd be infinitely grateful if someone could help me with
this.
Agreed; it can be a nightmare. Eventually you'll get the hang of a lot
of it.
Synaptic (in X) or aptitude can show you what's installed. I'm prettu
sure that you can also see what's installed with dpkg ("dpkg
--get-selections"?), but I'm not that familiar with all the ins-and-outs
of dpkg.
The alt-tab behaviour is totally unbearable right now. I want to solve
this somehow, but I have no idea what to do. I know this is the linux
mailinglist joker, but I'm seriously considering going back to Windows
for good, and that'd be after 3 years of using Linux and trying my
best to manage it. I had such high hopes for debian as well, it seemed
perfect :/
First, try a different window manager/environment (as outlined above) to
see if the problem is in X or in KDE.
--
Kent
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