Hello everybody! I recently installed potato on a PIII Box. Since my Video Card (ATI Rage 128 Pro) only works well with XF4 (as far as I know), I installed that from the unstable tree and it works fine (means, when I login as root and startx, I get a wonderful wmaker session). Besides wmaker I installed gnome and kde2.
Here come the problems: 1. starting X via startx as normal user, I only get something like an xterm without window decorations, not a real X session. On the console that I started X from, it says "Can not find a window manager. Please install one." I would really like to, but how to do so? I haven't had to do fiddle with X session management so far, maybe anyone can help me or point me to the documentation? How can I install wmaker as my Windowmanager, how gnome? And how can I make them selectable in kdm or gdm? 2. When I try to enter german umlauts (äöüß) at the console or any x-terminal-emulation, I get only beeps, although it works fine with any x-editor. I tried fixing this with kbdconfig and while testing the selected keytable "de-latin1-nodeadkeys" the umlauts work. Unfortunately, after telling kbdconfig to install this keytable, I have the same problem again: "z" and "y" are at the right (german) places, but no ä,ö,ü, and when pressing "ß" it scrolls through commandline history. I'm quite confused... Thanks for help! Dominik Eismann ************************************************************************* * * * "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." * * (stolen from this list) * *************************************************************************
