Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
On Sunday 08 April 2007 03:06, Michael M. wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:47 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > Thanks for taking to time to post all that information. I have installed > > Gnome, just haven't figured out how to get it going yet! After reading > > your post one of the things that I

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-08 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:47 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > Thanks for taking to time to post all that information. I have installed > Gnome, just haven't figured out how to get it going yet! After reading your > post one of the things that I think I need to do first is read some good > article

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 10:49, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > The Gnome option doesn't appear under the "Session Type" option. I > > > > assume that I haven't installed all the packages needed for Gnome. > > > > What additional packages do I need? > > > > > > Maybe the gnome-session package? Try t

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 14:41, Michael M. wrote: > -- > Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA > "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions > of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to > dream." --S. Jackson Thanks for taking to time to pos

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 07:29 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse?

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > > which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice > > of which system to start or will I have to man

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > > > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > > Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an in

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an install of the Gnome > > core; > > > > aptitude install gnome-core > > > > The Gnome option doesn't appear under the

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had > > > Sarge i

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I > > think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days. > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > whi

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just because distributions default to something doesn't mean that > other things don't work on them. The beauty of Debian is that almost > everything is available in the repositories. You can use whatever you > feel most comfortable with. The only way you w

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Keep the following packages at their current version: > fam [Not Installed] > Leave the following dependencies unresolved: > libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam > nautilus recommends fam > Score is -341 > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] > > I chose not to accept this right now. Do I need to add th

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:05:52 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:53:01AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:53:01AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Dist

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I had stated previously I installed from the > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice of > which system to start or will I have to manually close KDE an

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a > favorite windowing system that I prefer an

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: > Minimal command line interface: > no monitor, no graphics card, no terminal, just a > dot matrix printer and a keyboard. > Yup, did that once when I _really_ needed to fix > something. You really don't want to get into that competition here.

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:09 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> . gconf spews all sorts of errors into log files. > > Not true as of 2.18.0.1-2. > Too bad that this is not in Etch. But good to know. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:09 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > . gconf spews all sorts of errors into log files. Not true as of 2.18.0.1-2. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > >> Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > >> RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) > > > Flamebait! Oh now, now we're going to get a flamewar over which

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: [snip] >> As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen >> enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't really >> have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would b

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like U

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like U

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
Oops! Sorry about that! Kmail gave me an error on the first send so I didn't think it was sent out. On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:33, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome i

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previou

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previou

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > >> Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, >> RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:12:58PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > So would you say in general that the debian-testing-xxx-kde-CD-1.iso image is > for higher end system installs and the debian-testing-xxx-xfce-CD-1.iso image > is for lower end and debian-testing-xxx-netinst.iso image is to all

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed > but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. > Works great!! Since I am a

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Randy Patterson wrote: > So would you say in general that the debian-testing-xxx-kde-CD-1.iso image > is for higher end system installs and the debian-testing-xxx-xfce-CD-1.iso > image is for lower end and debian-testing-xxx-netinst.iso image is to > allow for all options? > I do not think debia

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:09, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't hav

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Javier Enrique Tiá Marín
El Miércoles, 4 de Abril de 2007 19:09, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi escribió: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed > but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. > Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing syst

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Randy Patterson wrote: > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a > favorite windowing system that I prefer and was wondering if som

Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Randy Patterson
I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing system that I prefer and was wondering if someone to point me to a good li