Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment]

2015-08-19 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 07:43:04AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I reiinstalled (avoiding past missteps), to a console, and from it installed xorg and fluxbox. I then ran xstart from console and all went well. With one

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:54:06AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and fluxbox. That

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-15 Thread aitor_czr
Hi again, Grub-install failed in gnuinos server (Alpha2). Apparently libfuse2 and os-prober are not included in it. I will solve this issue during the day. Thanks, Aitor. On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 23:52:56 +0200 aitor_czr wrote: Hi all, I'm uploading a live image of gnuinos in amd64

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700 Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop environment. At

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-14 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:16:21 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:57:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:01:14 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net, To:dng@lists.dyne.org,

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-14 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:54:48PM +0200, Riccardo Boninsegna wrote: Il 13/ago/2015 10:21 PM, Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net ha scritto: I guess I'll just try to reinstall. I initially tried to install testing/ascii, but couldn't complete install software. So I retreated to jessie, and

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:01:11 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: Rereading your original post: Do you want to not have a Display Manager such as lightdm, kdm, gdm etc, or do you want your computer not to have X at all? If the latter, just deinstall X. If the former, you need to

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-14 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log in as user in console, but for some

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment Reply-To:

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:01:14 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net, To:dng@lists.dyne.org, Cc:Bcc:@tupac2.dyne.org wrote: What is this environment (it has a chartreuse background), and how do I get rid of it? How do I get rid of the gui login (xdm, gdm, kdm etc not installed) so that I can

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment Reply-To:

2015-08-13 Thread Riccardo Boninsegna
Il 13/ago/2015 07:01 PM, Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net ha scritto: Nevertheless, in spite of that when I reboot I'm taken to a graphical log in screen and then to some kind of desktop environment. Xfce4 is not installed. What is this environment (it has a chartreuse background), and how do

[DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment Reply-To:

2015-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
www.historicalMaterialism.info I installed Alpha 2 jessie in expert mode so that I could avoid installing a desktop environment. In package selection, I deselect a desktop environment. When installation finished I install fluxbox and use # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager to select

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:57:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:01:14 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net, To:dng@lists.dyne.org, Cc:Bcc:@tupac2.dyne.org wrote: What is this environment (it has a chartreuse background), and how do I get rid of it? How do I get rid

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-13 Thread Riccardo Boninsegna
Il 13/ago/2015 09:16 PM, Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net ha scritto: However, # which xfce4-power-manager tells me it is in /usr/bin. The next step would be ‘dpkg -S /usr/bin/xfce4-power-manager’ to check if it belongs to some weird package... ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:16:21 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:57:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:01:14 -0400 Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net, To:dng@lists.dyne.org, Cc:Bcc:@tupac2.dyne.org wrote: What is this