Re: newbie X configuration

2000-12-12 Thread Sabino Maggi
> Thanks (belatedly :) for your help on this. IceWM runs quite nicely on my > 32 MB IPX. Even if it is somewhat Windows-looking, which I was trying to > avoid ;p You __do not__ need to make it Windows-like (urgh!). Install the deb package 'icewm-themes' and you can choose dozens of different-loo

Re: newbie X configuration

2000-12-12 Thread Tibor Simko
Hello > Blackbox is fine but, if I remember well when I last tried it, uses > too many colors of the 256-color palette of the CGsix graphics card. Dunno about how BB runs in 8bpp mode, but there is a 'session.colorsPerChannel' run-time option you can set and also a '--enable-ordered-pseudo' compi

Re: newbie X configuration

2000-12-12 Thread Sabino Maggi
> > IceWM runs quite nicely on my 32 MB IPX. Even if it is somewhat > > Windows-looking, which I was trying to avoid ;p > > Give 'blackbox' a try, then. It's smaller and faster than icewm. Blackbox is fine but, if I remember well when I last tried it, uses too many colors of the 256-color palet

Re: newbie X configuration

2000-12-12 Thread Tibor Simko
Hello > IceWM runs quite nicely on my 32 MB IPX. Even if it is somewhat > Windows-looking, which I was trying to avoid ;p Give 'blackbox' a try, then. It's smaller and faster than icewm. cheers -- TS

Re: newbie X configuration

2000-12-11 Thread east256
Thanks (belatedly :) for your help on this. IceWM runs quite nicely on my 32 MB IPX. Even if it is somewhat Windows-looking, which I was trying to avoid ;p The problems I was having were with Mozilla and, I guess, fvwm(2). I didn't realize graphical browsing was so problematic, and the default

Re: newbie X configuration

2000-11-30 Thread Sabino Maggi
> > I have got a Sparcstation IPX with Debian 2.2r1 installed (connected to ADSL > behind an Edge/ThinLinux firewall I might add :) but am not sure how to > configure X. All of the documentation I have seen so far refers to using > XF86Config but I do not have this package in my apt/FTP installat

newbie X configuration

2000-11-30 Thread east256
Hi there, I have got a Sparcstation IPX with Debian 2.2r1 installed (connected to ADSL behind an Edge/ThinLinux firewall I might add :) but am not sure how to configure X. All of the documentation I have seen so far refers to using XF86Config but I do not have this package in my apt/FTP installat