> > --- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, all! > > > > I have a Power Macintosh 7500/100 running Debian > > Sarge. > > > > I have recently switched from KDE to > > GNUStep/WindowMaker, and I am > > having a problem with GWorkspace. > > Please be aware that there have been big/major > developments in GnuStep over the past year. more > so in the underneath layers than in the applications > suite. so that makes it difficult for the developers > to do much for you, as before that it was stalled > for > quite a while. > > the thing is you CAN upgrade to Xorg while still > running > the sarge 2.6.8 kernel, that is from testing; if > you are willing to do so then you can update GnuStep > to > a recent version. > > i did this a few days ago with my older powerbook > from > 1997, so i know its ok... > > but i would say that windowmaker and gworkspace both > have some problems and i use openbox. for a little > while when i had time i was trying to build the > new gnustep desktop package -- that is called > etoile. > it is not in debian but it looks like it could be > better. i had tried fsviewer also and found both to > not work really well. > > also openbox window manager works with gnustep apps > pretty well, better than windowmaker on my old > machine. > i tried blackbox too. i have problems sometimes with > colorspace corruption so your results may differ. > > you may need to search a bit more carefully for all > the gnustep support. check the gnustep web sites for > more help !! > > good luck, > > brian > > p.s. hope i have time to get back to working with > this stuff soon. too many hassles recently, sorry > i can't offer more specific help just now. > > > > > I used aptitude to install "^gnustep$" (without > the > > quotes) and then > > remove "kde-core". I have not installed "wdm" yet, > > so I am using xdm. > > > > When I go to launch GWorkspace, I get a sequence > of > > 15 error messages.
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