Re: window manager follies,etc.

[Dayton Turner]

Although, If you like nextstep-ish windowmanagers, windowmaker is so far one of
the only window managers i've used that has intelligence to ackowledge that you
have 8bpp, and dither things rather than trying to steal all the colors.. Just
my experience.

Hope that helps!
Dayton

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 On  3 Aug, Mike Pfleger wrote:
  Greetings.
 
  As things now stand, I have potato on my Classic.
  Thanks again to all who offered advice on this.
  I have two questions at this point; which window
  manager is most happy with the 8bpp framebuffer,

 Anyone that doesn't depend too much on pixmaps.  I like 'icewm'.
 'blackbox' also works well, and 'fvwm2' if you configure it so it
 doesn't use many pixmap icons.  'windowmaker', 'afterstep', and
 'enlightenment' need too many colors.

 David S.
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netscape?

[Dayton Turner]

Sorry If im repeating a past question, but i cant seem to figure out how
to isntall netscape on my sparc. When select the packages,  i have a
dependancy on netscape-base-472 for example, which doesnt exist. I've
installed all the netscape related packages, but dont have a netscape
binary.

Am I overlooking something silly?

re: xserver-xsun broken!

[Dayton Turner]

Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get

pivo:~# startx
(using VT number 7)

PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices


Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir
doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be
having the same problem you are with the core devices.

Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you
either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if
you have seen this problem fixed yet?

Thanks alot
Dayton

Hi,
Yesterday, I have confidently convert a Sun sparc-solaris to
 sparc-debian. No particular problem, but when I launch startx I found
 that the xserver package isn't installed : in fact it has been
 dselected when I select gpm. No problem, I reinstall xserver-xsun
 which remove gpm. However, startx yields the following error message

 SunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument
 Fatal server error
 Fail to initialize core devices

 Sound familiar, I remove the link /dev/mouse - gpmdata and reling to
 /dev/sunmouse then relaunch startx: same error ! I purge gpm: same
 error, purge xserver-xsun and reinstall xserver-xsun: same error,
 reboot retart: same error

 Panic, going back and reinstall solaris would be too much a hassle.
 Fortunately I remember having a Sun machine running sparc-debian. I
 copy the file Xsun on this machine to this one. It works !

 I would like to point out that this other Sun have been upgradded
 several day ago and for some reason the xserver-xsun have been kept
 back (perhaps because of the presence of gpm ?). I also notice that
 adter upgrading my xserver crashed and I have to remove gpm.
 Apparently, this upgrade have nevertheless change the behaviour of the
 X server: it crash in the presence of gpm while before gpm get kill.
 That's no big deal. But I am very upset that at this advance stage (of
 freeze), one still tinkers with a critical and working package like X
 and introduce new bug. Just two days ago? I have reported a bug in the
 new file /etc/Xsession (it no longer loads the Xresources)

 Please go back to the xserver-xsun which works

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