Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

OK, thank you all for your time. I will save my time and stick with KDE for now. /Pedro On Saturday 30 October 2004 05.38, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 13:34, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:16 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Although

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:28:10 +0100 Derek Jennings disseminated the following: (Yes Joe I know pekwm is better, but its not so easy to install) If he could build Fluxbox he could build Pekwm. However, Pek is nowhere near as easy to configure I'll give you that, and of course once it's installed

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Friday 29 October 2004 15:02, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:28:10 +0100 Derek Jennings disseminated the following: (Yes Joe I know pekwm is better, but its not so easy to install) If he could build Fluxbox he could build Pekwm. Yes he built it, but it didn't work. However,

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Friday 29 October 2004 16.02, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:28:10 +0100 Derek Jennings disseminated the following: (Yes Joe I know pekwm is better, but its not so easy to install) If he could build Fluxbox he could build Pekwm. However, Pek is nowhere near as easy to configure

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:00:03 +0100 Derek Jennings disseminated the following: If he could build Fluxbox he could build Pekwm. Yes he built it, but it didn't work. I got the impression the only problem was that it was not showing up in the login manager, maybe I misunderstood. copied, pasted

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:11:55 +0200 Pedro Blom disseminated the following: What did I do wrong? In your home dir, create create a file called '.xinitrc'. edit the file like so: exec pekwm Save it, make it executable (chmod +x .xinitrc) then when you log in: 'startx' -- JoeHill / RLU

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:28:24 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: What did I do wrong? In your home dir, create create a file called '.xinitrc'. edit the file like so: exec pekwm Save it, make it executable (chmod +x .xinitrc) then when you log in: 'startx' Oh, and when

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:11, Pedro Blom wrote: On Friday 29 October 2004 16.02, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:28:10 +0100 Derek Jennings disseminated the following: (Yes Joe I know pekwm is better, but its not so easy to install) If he could build Fluxbox he could build

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:53:42 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Got the message Can not open display. Your DISPLAY Variable currently is set usename @computername username $ What did I do wrong? Install Xtart One prob with that route, at least when it comes to

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 10:20, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:53:42 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Got the message Can not open display. Your DISPLAY Variable currently is set usename @computername username $ What did I do wrong? Install Xtart

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:16 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Well pt! I hate things starting up without my expressly starting them. ...like when you start KDE? ;-) That was my point, .xinitrc, or whatever script is what allows you to do just that: be in total control.

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Friday 29 October 2004 07:25 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:16 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Well pt! I hate things starting up without my expressly starting them. ...like when you start KDE? ;-) That was my point, .xinitrc, or whatever script is

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:49:34 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Oh you just ran moaning goat monitor ;-) ? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 23:16:55 up 86 days, 23:07, 6 users, load average: 0.33, 0.09, 0.03 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:16 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Although I have many MANY window manglers/desktops installed, BTW, Waimea's back: http://freedesktop.org/software/waimea Can't build it, though, I'm way behind on 9.2 methinks. Looks pretty cool. -- JoeHill / RLU

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 13:34, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:16 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Although I have many MANY window manglers/desktops installed, BTW, Waimea's back: http://freedesktop.org/software/waimea Can't build it, though, I'm way behind on

[newbie] First time posting for advice.

Hi, I'm a very new newbie and running Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop sharing drive with XP. I'm now only using xp for Quickbooks. I love Mandrake I downloaded Fluxbox and unpacked it with tar then configure, make and make install.. Everything went well. On reboot, to see if it had installed, it

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Thursday 28 October 2004 23:43, geoff wrote: Hi, I'm a very new newbie and running Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop sharing drive with XP. I'm now only using xp for Quickbooks. I love Mandrake I downloaded Fluxbox and unpacked it with tar then configure, make and make install.. Everything went

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

On Friday 29 October 2004 00:43, geoff wrote: Hi, I'm a very new newbie and running Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop sharing drive with XP. I'm now only using xp for Quickbooks. I love Mandrake I downloaded Fluxbox and unpacked it with tar then configure, make and make install.. Everything went