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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501212027.09980.ghesk...@wdtv.com