On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:46:56 -0500 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> My goal: understand Debian from a fairly low level on up > Environment: a laptop dedicated exclusively as a learning environment > Resources: complete DVD sets for Squeeze and Wheezy (totally > isolated from internet ;) > > History: > When initially moving from Windows to Debian, installed Squeeze > with Gnome2. A generally satisfactory experience though standard > install had programs I would never use and was missing essential > programs. I was tweaking it when I obtained Wheezy. > > Gnome3 is an ugly non-starter. Investigating relative merits of > DE's led to understanding difference between a DE and a WM (thank > you to list for educational posts). > > What should I be reading to understand: > 1. what would be minimal set of programs to install? > 2. what scripts get run after a cold or warm boot? > (I've discovered I know less about that than I thought I did.) > > Thank you. If I'm understanding your question correctly, here's what I'd do: 1) Make yourself a network install boot disk. 2) Install only the core, non-gui stuff, and ssh client and server, because you always need those. 3) As root, apt-get install Openbox I can't remember for sure, but #3 above might fail to install X. If it does, install Openbox from synaptic, or from aptitude. With nothing but core stuff, Openbox and X installed, you have a plain-Jane machine. You can later use apt-get or aptitude or synaptic to add needed stuff, as needed. By the way, I'm pretty sure the way I told you to do it, you'll boot to CLI, log in, and type startx, and you might need to put exec /usr/bin/openbox-session in your $HOME/.xinitrc file to get startx to start up Openbox. If you simply must boot to the GUI login, I think you need to install lightdm. Unlike Gnome, KDE, LXDE and Xfce, Openbox doesn't, by default, have all those things to make fonts look crisp and clear and the right size. Here are some workarounds I wrote up: http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm#wmde_compensations Scroll down until you see an <h2> called "Fonts". HTH, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140810134428.0dee5...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
