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Re: Wheezy is installed

On 21/01/15 08:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

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
Every Linux desktop has multiple workspaces (virtual screens). The difficulties you report having seem to be the result of your failure to read the options at each stage of the install.
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