Re: Wheezy is installed

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 20/01/15 07:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 18:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 06:17:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings;
> > >
> > > Along with around 1300 other pkgs because I like kde yadda yadda.
> > >
> > > First question:  Does it take a reboot before you can select kdm at
> > > login? I did 2 or 3 logouts & back in without being presented with a
> > > choice.
> > It should normally start up automatically - it's just possible that kdm
> > didn't get installed?
> >
> > apt-get install kdm should fix it :)
> >
> > > 2nd question: Since I am used to 10 workspaces, where is the
> > > workspace creator?
> > Type workspace into the search
> >
> > Virtual Desktop should come up
> >
> > > 3rd question, that speech synth is driving me nuts, so how do I shut
> > > that thing off?
> > Speech synthesiser might be kmouth, I don't know because I haven't got
> > it running.
> >
> > apt-get remove kmouth ?
> >
> > > There is no doubt more, but I'm back on Lucid ATM.
> > Hope this helps, all the best,
> >
> > AndyC
> Thanks for the reply AndyC, but it self-destructed when I tried to fix the
> alignment, so bad that blkid cannot find it.  I am going to have to find
> some more patience before I tackle this again. probably not with wheezy.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

It doesn't take patience. It just takes using the installer correctly. 
You seem to be having immense difficulty with the user interface, which 
I found to quite easy to manage but people do have various notions of 
what is the best way to do things.

Please note that a graphical desktop is NOT installed by default. You 
have to select it in the task selector.