Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-15 Thread csj
On Sunday 14 January 2001 17:06, Steve R. Hastings wrote: > Now all I need to do is get the esound daemon going and play my > favorite music in Xmms. You don't need the esound daemon to use Xmms. It's intelligent enough to use sound drivers from various sources. As an example, I can use both the

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-14 Thread Steve R. Hastings
> You should try "apt-get install gdm". gdm is the gnome equivalent of > xdm. Thanks! I did that, and it's working great. It took care of un-installing xdm, too! I also solved the 60 Hz problem. I had read through the Xfree86 documentation quickly, and I read that with 4.x you don't have to s

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Steve R. Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010113 05:08]: > > > 1) How do I enable the Gnome desktop? I want the "foot" menu, > > the panel, applets, etc. > > This turns out to be provided by gnome-session. I already have > gnome-session installed, and if I manually run it I get the foot menu > a

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread Diego Biurrun
You should try "apt-get install gdm". gdm is the gnome equivalent of xdm. Diego Biurrun "Steve R. Hastings" schrieb: > > I suspect that what I actually want here is to somehow replace the login > prompt I now have from xdm(1) with the Gnome login prompt. I am unsure > whether Gnome has a replac

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I have still been working on this, and I can partly answer my own questions now... > 0) I am used to Sawfish. What apt-get commands can I use to get it? # apt-get install sawfish-gnome Notes: a) You must have unstable (sid) in your sources.list b) You want sawfish-gnome, *not*

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-13 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0800, Steve R. Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. I am a brand-new Debian user. I have another computer running > Mandrake with the full Helix Gnome installed. (These days it's Ximian > Gnome but I haven't updated in a while.) > > I'd like to get

Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-12 Thread Steve R. Hastings
Hello. I am a brand-new Debian user. I have another computer running Mandrake with the full Helix Gnome installed. (These days it's Ximian Gnome but I haven't updated in a while.) I'd like to get my Debian system running the same desktop environment as my Mandrake computer. But my understa