Re: Debian Welcome Screen

[Steven Jones]

Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/17 Steven Jones <sjo...@enrgies.com>: First, I am greatly appreciative of the help. It's a bit late to say so now, but I think it would have been better to become comfortable with the default Debian setup first before looking at variations like icewm. "Out of the box", Debian should give you the bar that you've described below, plus the Zhone application for telephony. My page at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Neiljerram has more information on what that looks like, and possible small tweaks to it. I tried installing with nodm, and when it booted, I had a bar across the top with several (small) icons- battery, wifi, keyboard, and others- but i had no windows, and I couldn't do anything on the touchscreen, other than select those icons. You should also have Zhone, started by a "/usr/bin/zhone &" line in your .xsession. Perhaps the problem is that it didn't get installed - perhaps something to do with what TASKS was set to at installation time? In that case, please search for "zhone" in install.sh to find out how it can be installed, and do that. (Probably just "apt-get install zhone".) Also, if you touch the keyboard icon, a keyboard should pop up at the bottom of the screen. Does that happen? If it does, you can type Ctrl Alt X to bring up an xterm window. Is this where I can expect to be after I remove gdm? Another piece of the puzzle may be that zhone didn't install correctly. I guess I am still a little confused at how zhone, illume, e17, and debian all interact with each other. e17 and illume go together, but otherwise they're all independent. I will try your suggestion for switching to nodm and see what happens. Good luck! Neil If I run the following: QI=true ./install.sh all, I get to the Debian screen that you have on your web page, without any apps. I just have the icons at the top. In that instance, it does open a keyboard, and ctl alt x opens an xterm window, and I can view the battery information, etc. When I tried apt-get install zhone, it failed due to un-met dependencies. I did the following: QI=true TASKS=all ./install.sh all, and had the following two results: 1) Zhone failed to install when I ran the script, with the following message: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have            requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable           distribution that some required packages have not yet been created           or been moved out of Incoming.                                               The following information may help to resolve the situation:                 The following packages have unmet dependencies:   zhone: Depends: python-edbus but it is not going to be installed          Depends: python-ecore but it is not going to be installed          Depends: python-edje but it is not going to be installed          Depends: python-evas but it is not going to be installed          Depends: libevas-svn-03-engines-x but it is not going to be installed                                                                                     Depends: zhone-illume-glue but it is not going to be installed      E: Broken packages                                                           [failed - check pkg-fso mailing list]                                        I: freesmartphone.org software installed 2) Task GPS fails, and the script terminates, with the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies:   navit: Depends: libgps18 (>= 2.39) but it is not installable E: Broken packages

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