On 2018-02-24, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> 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".
It worked perfectly.
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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
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
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> I just did "apt-get install xorg".
> Now typing "startx" at command line does give me a fvwm screen.
So fvwm is running already (more below)
> However typing "fvwm" at command
On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 09:57:12 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I just did "apt-get install xorg".
> Now typing "startx" at command line does give me a fvwm screen.
Fine. Now use the mouse (click) to get a menu.
> However typing "fvwm" at command line gives
> > [fvwm][main] <> can't open display
David Wright writes:
> It doesn't mean that if you install a package designed to run on X
> that apt will immediately install all the packages required for a
> functional X system.
Fvwm does not depend on an X server because it might be running on a
headless machine while an X server is running on
On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 16:56:19 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:12:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>
> > To clarify I got a console command line (Whole screen is one window
> > with no graphical ornaments !)
>
> Aha. As someone already said in this thread, it seem
On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 10:23:53 (-0600), David Wright wrote:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/fvwm >| $HOME/.fvwm-stdout 2>| $HOME/.fvwm-stderr &
> WMPID=$!
This line got wrapped; sorry.
> xterm …
> xterm …
> swisswatch -title local -noshape
> xconsole -name console -file
On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 09:57:12 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/23/2018 09:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >On 02/23/2018 05:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>History
> >>I run MATE, but to paraphrase a restaurant - "I want Debian MyWay" ;)
> >>It was suggested that I wanted what KDE calls "act
On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 09:12:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/23/2018 05:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >History
> >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
On 02/23/2018 09:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 02/23/2018 05:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
History
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.
f
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:12:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
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> To clarify I got a console command line (Whole screen is one window
> with no graphical ornaments !)
Aha. As someone already said in this thread, it seems you have no
X installe
On 02/23/2018 05:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
History
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
Richard Owlett writes:
> 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 a
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:43:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:21:11PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > tracker.debian.org tells me that there is a default configuration file in
> >
> > https://sources.debia
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:21:11PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> tracker.debian.org tells me that there is a default configuration file in
> https://sources.debian.org/data/main/f/fvwm/1:2.6.7-3/default-config/config
> which is the download view of
> https://sources.debian.org/src/fvw
Hi,
tracker.debian.org tells me that there is a default configuration file in
https://sources.debian.org/data/main/f/fvwm/1:2.6.7-3/default-config/config
which is the download view of
https://sources.debian.org/src/fvwm/1:2.6.7-3/default-config/config/
It looks like a clean starting point for
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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.
There's not much configuration in the fvwm package of Debian, indeed.
> I rebooted expecting a mi
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 05:46:40AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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 wh
History
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 b
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