This one time, at band camp, Galileu Paulo said: > Hi guys: > > I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the > way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the > problems: > > 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system completely and later I > installed nestscape-base-4 with all the packages recommended by dselect. > However, the icons on the desktop that should point to the browser do not > work. I tried the command "netscape-remote" at the xterm window and I just > received the answer "not running on display :0.0". I tried as root and as > regular user. I tried to find any other executable that could start > netscape, but no succeed. I uninstalled netscape, installed again several > times, and nothing.
Try /usr/bin/X11/netscape - I'm guessing you're running GNOME, which as
I recall sometimes had problems calling netscape properly - it uses a
wrapper script to open a new window instead of attempting a new instance
if it's already running - that's the netscape-remote command.
> 2- Every time I install the xwindow system (I did it many times), Linux
> always run the graphical environment at startup. Sometimes I like to be able
> to start Linux with the prompt shell only. How can I do that. (I did it
> once, when I had a RedHat installed, just changing the runlevel at startup,
> but it did not work with Debian).
Ctrl-Alt-F(1-6) will get you a terminal login even if you have one of
the GUI login managers running. If you want to stop the GUI login
manager from running, you can either apt-get remove --purge it (it's on
of {k,x,g}dm) or you can remove the start link in /etc/rc2.2/ - it
called Sxx{g,k,x}dm where xx are some numbers (I think 99, but I can't
remember).
> Could anybody help me?
I hope so,
Steve
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