on 27/02/2002 22:57, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:47:20PM -0500, eric wrote: >> Chris Tillman wrote: >> >>> You're out of my league now; but there are 2 ways to start X, startx and >>> gdm. With gdm, you have a choice of what kind of session you want, I >>> think. When installed as part of the tasksel desktop package, I think most >>> of this stuff is taken care of for you; at least gnome starts for me >>> automatically when I start X. >>> >> >> well, as you can tell from my earlier post, I've gotten it to work. I >> still have to work out things like my DEL and BACKSPACE keys, figure out >> how to get 3 button mouse emulation, and I'm set. I'm writing this from >> mozilla (I haven't been concentrating on getting a real (IMO) emailer to >> work... yah, GNOME gets started from within X, duh me. gnome desktop and >> so forth. Thanx for the help :-). > > For 3-button emulation, search the list for sysctl.conf or mac_hid.
ok, thanks :). (smiling yet again) in that folder (directory, mac os habit...) I saw 3 files, all of them 0 bytes. all have a 0 or nothing, depending which file viewer one uses, and the names are mouse_button2_??? mouse_button3 and mouse_button_emulation. I tried editing them to have them read as 1, and not zero, but the kernel wouldn't let me. also I've been having a strange problem with permissions. What's the permission and owner of /usr ? anyone? eric