Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Kent West
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Thanks, I will try that next. What is funny is that only the "debian box" > appears gray -I > have afterstep running-, and I can click on it: nothing happens. Any other > box is not gray, > has "something". I already tried dpkg -r ; apt-get install package>, but > s

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: > > I'm no expert, but here's a brief rundown of my understanding. > > Desktop icons are not part of window managers, but they are part of > "environments", such as KDE or Gnome, so if you're looking for desktop > icons, that's the direction to look. I am less of a

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks, I will try that next. What is funny is that only the "debian box" appears gray -I have afterstep running-, and I can click on it: nothing happens. Any other box is not gray, has "something". I already tried dpkg -r ; apt-get install , but still no life to the gray box. I will see what hap

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Kent West
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Yes I do. I have installed several of them: icewm, fvwm, enlightenment, > afterstep,etc > > Pollywog wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that > > > I don't have any appl

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Mark Crotts
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 05:43:47PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Yes I do. I have installed several of them: icewm, fvwm, enlightenment, > afterstep,etc Try this. vim ~/.xinitrc add the following line exec save it then "startx" > Pollywog wrote:

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Yes I do. I have installed several of them: icewm, fvwm, enlightenment, afterstep,etc Pollywog wrote: > On Sun, 21 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that > > I don't have any applications accessible from there, even xterm i

Re: Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that > I don't have any applications accessible from there, even xterm isn't > there! I suposse that it hapenned because I installed all the > applications first, and then only my Xsy

Putting applications in Xwindows

2000-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got my Xwindows going with functioning mouse, the only problem is that I don't have any applications accessible from there, even xterm isn't there! I suposse that it hapenned because I installed all the applications first, and then only my Xsystem. How do I make them visible from there? Thanks, A