Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 23/06/2015, Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On 22/06/15 18:01, Bret Busby wrote:
>> The names of the applications are also in spanish.
>>
>> Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english?
>
> Speaking as a native speaker of English: Yes.
>
> What's wrong with using languages other than English to name programs?
> The last program I wrote is named in Latin (as is one of my favourite
> commercial video games), and the name of the audio player software I use
> on my desktop PC is a word from the Inuit languages.
>
>> And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2, including (but
>> not limited to) allowing the panel to be positioned along the bottom
>> of the screen, and, inclusion of the system monitor applet in the
>> panel?
>
> From the wikipedia article:
>
> "MATE is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code
> base of GNOME 2. It is named after the South American plant Yerba mate
> and tea made from the herb, mate. The use of a new name, instead of
> GNOME, avoids conflicts with GNOME 3 components."
>
> From the official web site:
>
> "The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2."
>
But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop
environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either
the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G, to
drive the external monitor.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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