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Re: Wheezy is installed



On Wednesday 21 January 2015 15:48:49 Gary Dale did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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.

That is another sore point.  I distinctly told it I wanted kde on the 
first attempt. I got gnome... One screen, no switchable workspaces.

This is NOT windows folks, let it do what we tell it to do!

The next install attempt never gave me a choice.  Thats a gnome or hit the 
road jack IMO.

There has not been a third attempt until such time as I can be assured it 
will just do what I want it to do.  Or I get over this funkity mood I am 
in from the first 2 failures.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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