On 02/23/2018 05:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
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I run MATE, but to paraphrase a restaurant - "I want Debian MyWay" ;)
It was suggested that I wanted what KDE calls "activities".
It looked promising. I installed it. It suffers from featuritis.
fvwm-crystal was also suggested. When installed it was in some sense
"cleaner" but still too busy. Launched fvwm which had been installed by
the fvwm-crystal package.
The problem
It had "inherited" configuration items from fvwm-crystal. The web pages
I had read spoke of a default 1st run display. I could not figure out
how to get that to appear.
Having adequate space available I used netinst to do a base command line
only install to a new partition. It was followed by doing "apt-get
install fvwm".
I rebooted expecting a minimal fvwm display. I got a command line.
I found that though a "/home/richard/.fvwm" directory had been created,
it was empty. I couldn't find copies of what files should have been
there on initial first run. Only instructions/examples for adding this
or that doodad.
Help please.
TIA
Found the underlying problem.
The design team measures success in terms of "elegance" and "completeness".
There is a sub-class of "retail customers" {so to speak} who want it to
"just work *as expected*" ;}
This example of that sub-class is by philosophy a "minimalist" and by
circumstances "resource constrained". I have a single laptop {no
need/desire/justification for LAN} who would not suffer if circumstances
moved him back to using 56k dial-up.
I had used netinst to do a base command line only install followed by
doing "apt-get install fvwm".
Didn't work. It needed "apt-get install xorg lightdm".
I've been gnawing on aspects of the problem since Squeeze.
The best idea I've come up with is having a tool that can author a
custom preseed.cfg file. One of the goals being not to touch or affect
the internals of the Debian installer.
Has anyone tried something similar?
An _owl_ now _ducks_ for cover :}
