On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:58:39PM -0600, tf wrote: > Hey guys, > > I finally got apt-get going--thanks. I can't remember,exactly, but is there > a dpkg --fix --broken that I can use to insure that I > have a "full" installation? I've got some of netscape 4.6, I think, but not > enough to make it run (can run Mozilla fine under > blackbox). The more I study dselect, the more confused I get.
There are netscatpe-smotif-46 and netscape-dmotif-46 pseudo-packages you can install which have the depends set to install all you need. > > blackbox stuff: how do you add menu items? a background color? how > changing the default video mode and color depth? (by > hand) right now I use startx blackbox to get going... I use entries in /etc/menu and run update-menus. It will add things to the blackbox menu (which is in /etc/X11/blackbox/Blackbox-menu. The appearance menu item has quite a few backgrounds available. I have experimented a bit with customizing the background with files from www.themes.org. The background stuff is in /usr/share/blackbox. > > an x-term is in the existing blackbox menu, but it won't accept any input. > How may I get wterm going (just read a post 'bout it > and it sounds good) > > last but not least... phewy on exim. I'm a beginner. is smail any easier to > configure? Right now I have the mutt-exim-fetchmail > combo. I visited some web document about exim and fetchmail, but lost the > url. I just got the smail deb. > > once I get mail, and netscape, I'll have no more reason to borrow a computer! smail is probably easier to configure than exim, but not as powerful. I use smail on one of my systems and sendmail on the others. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
