On 12/21/2000 17:15, Forrest English at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> send pictures, i have no idea what you're talking about.
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:35:02 -0500 (EST), Ralph Winslow said:
>
>> I've recently upgraded to unstable, and in the process lost my GUI
>> environment. I've managed to restore a GUI environment through
>> hacking (i.e. trying this and that while not really understanding
>> the whole GUI rendering process) but it's not the environment that
>> I had had. The one I had and liked resembled the one I use at work
>> on my Solaris workstation. I can highlight text with a left button
>> push/drag or double click, reposition the cursor, and center click
>> to paste. The new environment is sort of like the previous albeit
>> fancier, and cut/paste doesn't work. The new hasn't got a lock
>> token on the tool bar right next to the pick your desktop section.
>> (Sorry I don't know the 'real' terminology for all this stuff; I
>> only really use a bunch of xterms, cut/paste, and a browser in the
>> GUI environment; I'm just a command line guy at heart). Can anyone
>> advise on how to restore my old environment? TIA
Actually, I think I may have just figured it out. I think what has happened
is his desktop is now using regular Gnome instead of Helix Gnome. To fix,
add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/Debian woody main
Then do an apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade again.
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